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• Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX) were featured speakers at an NCPA Capitol Hill briefing, “Making Pensions Better,” on July 19 in Washington, D.C. Rep. Boehner is chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee and Rep. Johnson is chairman of the committee's Employer-Employee Relations Subcommittee.
• The NCPA released a major E-Team study on global warming at a Washington, D.C. news conference in the National Press Club on September 14. The study examines the benefits of adapting to global climate change. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st278/ .

• NCPA Senior Fellow and Public Trustee of Social Security and Medicare Thomas R. Saving debated John Rother, director of policy and strategy for AARP, on September 26 at the annual meeting of the National Association of Business Economics in Chicago.
• A debate between NCPA President Dr. John C. Goodman and Dr. Kenneth Thorpe, professor at Emory University and former Clinton and Kerry Health Care Advisor, was recently published by The Heartland Institute. The book, entitled Reforming the Health Care System is available online at http://www.heartland.org/books/reforming.cfm .

• NCPA Senior Economist Barry Asmus spoke during July about the effects of global events on the U.S. economy in San Antonio, Tempe and Nashville. He speaks about his book, The Best Is Yet to Come, in Las Vegas, Lexington (KY), Destin (FL) and Scottsdale.
• NCPA Senior Policy Analyst Matt Moore addressed Young Republicans about the need for Social Security reform at their national convention on July 8 in Las Vegas.
• NCPA Senior Fellow Bruce Bartlett addressed members of the Economic Committee of AARP's National Legislative Council at their summer policy development meeting on July 13 in Washington, D.C.
• NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett addressed Georgia's Joint House-Senate LNG and Natural Gas Study Committee on July 28 in Savannah.
• Asmus spoke during August about the effects of global events on the U.S. economy in Las Vegas.
• NCPA Senior Fellow William Conerly spoke about “Labor Laws: Ripe for Reform?” at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. on August 4.
• NCPA President Dr. John C. Goodman spoke as part of a panel at the Centre for Independent Studies Consilium 2005 in Queensland, Australia on August 5 and 6. He spoke on the topics of “Rediscovering Self-Reliance” and “Diagnosis and Prescription: Options for Health Policy Reform.”
• NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick addressed the World Research Group in Chicago on August 11 on the topic of “Rolling Out Health Savings Accounts to Health Plans and Employers.”
• NCPA Senior Policy Analyst Matt Moore told the Tarrant County Republican Assembly (Fort Worth) on August 18 that Social Security needs to be reformed now. He addressed Dallas County (TX) Republican Women on September 7.
• Asmus spoke during September about the effects of global events on the U.S. economy in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Amelia Island (FL) and Seattle.
• Goodman discussed “The Health Savings Account: A Tax-Free Way to Stay Healthy and Wealthy,” in Merrillville (IN) on September 9.
• Herrick spoke on the topic: “Hawaii, State of our Health” in Honolulu on September 9. He also spoke at a conference sponsored by the Hawaii Department of Health about Health Savings Accounts. He spoke at the “Innovative Product Development for Health Plans and Employers'” conference in San Francisco on September 13.
• Goodman presented his findings about “Retirement Security: Finding Common Ground” for the Pew Charitable Trusts Board in Washington, D.C. on September 14.
• Moore spoke about Social Security reform to the Collin County (TX) Republican Men's Club on September 15.
• NCPA Senior Fellow and Public Trustee of Social Security and Medicare Thomas R. Saving addressed the St. Louis Investment Management Corporation's general session about “Social Security Reform: What Are the Real Choices?” on September 20. He also told the Northern Colorado Summit on National Economic Issues on September 15 that Social Security must be reformed now.
• Bartlett participated in a forum on the economy sponsored by Joint Economic Committee Democrats and the Democratic Policy Committee on September 23 in Washington, D.C. The panel included Robert Rubin, Alan Blinder, Roger Altman, Alice Rivlin and Cecilia Rouse.
• Herrick addressed the annual conference of the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) on September 26 on Medicaid reform.
• Goodman spoke to the Council for Responsible Nutrition's annual conference about Health Savings Accounts on September 26 in Indian Wells (CA).
• Saving addressed the NABE conference about Social Security reform on September 28.
• Goodman addressed two break-out sessions on health care and retirement options at the Women Impacting Public Policy Leadership and Legacy Summit on September 28 in Washington, D.C.
• Goodman also addressed a Medicaid forum on September 30 at the State Policy Network's annual meeting in Charleston (SC).

• HSAs are becoming more and more popular with both employers and employees, and NCPA President John Goodman says in a new brief analysis that there are ways to make HSAs even better. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba518/ .
• In a new brief analysis, NCPA Senior Fellow Andy Rettenmaier, shows that there is not a direct connection between the rate of return on stocks and economic growth. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba519/ .
• A new NCPA brief analysis shows a President Bush-style Social Security system would provide benefits equal to what the current system promises for most workers and surpass those promised to low wage workers, according to a new report from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba520/ .
• Skyrocketing Medicaid costs for long-term care may lead states to more aggressively enforce laws to collect expenses for care of indigent parents from their adult children, according to a new NCPA brief analysis. The academic study upon which the brief analysis is based won third place in the Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest sponsored by the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association. A longer version of the brief analysis has been published in the Fall 2005 issue of Family Law Quarterly, the American Bar Association's section of Family Law. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba521/ .
• The Renewable Portfolio Standard was eliminated from the compromise national energy bill and NCPA E-Team Adjunct Scholar Robert Michaels said in a new brief analysis that the RPS was bad for consumers. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba522/ .
• A bill before Congress would allow consumers to buy insurance regardless of the state in which they live, according to a new brief analysis written by NCPA Washington Representative Jack Strayer. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba523/ .
• FDA reforms should simplify and speed the process of switching today's prescription drugs to OTC status, according to a new brief analysis written by NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick and NCPA Research Associate Paul Kittinger. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba524/ .
• Ending subsidies would reduce the economic, human and environmental toll of natural disasters, according to a new brief analysis written by NCPA Research Associate Christy Black. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba525/ .
• The prospect of a housing bubble is real, but in a new brief analysis NCPA Senior Fellow Bruce Bartlett says a home is still the best investment for an individual. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba526/ .
• The growing consensus on climate change policies is that adaptation will protect present and future generations from climate-sensitive risks far more than efforts to restrict CO 2 emissions, according to a new brief analysis written by NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett.http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba527/.
• Health Savings Accounts will make health insurance coverage more affordable for healthy and young workers, according to a new brief analysis written by NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick . http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba528/ .
• Alternative ways to deliver aid to hurricane Katrina's victims was the subject of a brief analysis written by NCPA President John Goodman. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba529/ .
• An NCPA analysis of teachers' salaries in the top 20 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas and selected other cities shows some surprising results when nominal salaries of teachers are compared with the cost of living. http://www.ncpa.org/prs/rel/2005/20050815nr.html
• A flat tax on consumption would not only reform the current tax system but could also be progressive, according to a new study co-authored by NCPA President John C. Goodman and Senior Fellow Laurence Kotlikoff. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st275/ .
• Public policy strategies that adapt to global warming rather than trying to prevent it are more economical and socially beneficial, according to a new NCPA study written by Indur Goklany. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st278/ .
• New analysis of climate data show that global warming and cooling occur naturally within a 1,500-year climate cycle. The NCPA study was written by E-Team Adjunct Scholars S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery and released at last week's annual conference of the Society for Environmental Journalists in Austin, Texas. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st280/.

• NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett participated in the discussion, Energy in the 21 st Century , on the July 3 edition of McCuistion (PBS-TV).
• Burnett told CNBC's Squawk Box program on September 9 that government policies made the impact of hurricane Katrina much worse than it needed to be. http://www.ncpa.org/avo/visual/ncpa47.asx His remarks also appeared in the Dallas Business Journal and on KXYZ-AM (Houston).
• NCPA Board Chairman Gov. Pete du Pont told the Fox News Channel on September 15 that officials in both New Orleans and the State of Louisiana are the first line of defense in a catastrophe, not the federal government or the Bush Administration.
• Burnett told the September 16 edition of Hannity & Colmes (Fox News Channel) that hurricanes and global warming cannot be linked. His remarks also appeared on the Fox News Channel's Big Story, WFAA-TV (Dallas-Ft. Worth) and TXCN (Texas Cable News Network), in the Washington Post, Bergen (NJ) Record, Human Events and on KTEK-AM ( Houston ), the Jim Bohannon Show and Janet Parshall's America nationally syndicated radio program .

• NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick discussed this year's index, Economic Freedom of North America: 2005 Annual Report , on KXYZ-AM (Houston) on July 1. His comments also appeared in the Portland (OR) Press Gazette and the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail.
• Iowa Team NCPA Leader Kevin McLaughlin stressed the importance and benefits of personal retirement accounts for Social Security on KGLO-AM on July 5.
• NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett told Radio America's Greg Corombos Show on July 6 that President Bush needs to maintain the U.S. position at the G-8 Summit that the Kyoto Protocol is not based on sound science and might harm the American economy.
• Wisconsin Team NCPA member Drew MacEwen told WHBL-AM on July 8, that Social Security must be reformed soon and that personal retirement accounts were essential to that reform.
• Burnett told WTKF-FM and WJNC-AM (Morehead City, NC) on July 12 that hurricanes are not a by-product of global warming.
• Herrick told KNUS-AM (Denver) on July 24 that Colorado's ranking in the Index of Economic Freedom is high. The index is published by the NCPA and Canada's Fraser Institute.
• Burnett told Radio America's Dateline Washington program on July 27 that no energy bill is better than a bad bill.
• Burnett told KERA-FM (Dallas-Ft. Worth) on July 28 that ethanol subsidies harm the environment and the economy. His comments also appeared in the Dallas Business Journal and the Aberdeen (SD) American News.
• Herrick told KUER-FM (Salt Lake City) on August 1 that outsourcing health care manufacturing jobs may mean higher-skilled jobs in the U.S.
• NCPA Senior Policy Analyst Matt Moore told WCBS-AM (New York City) Newsradio that teachers may want to consider the cost of living when evaluating base pay. His comments also appeared in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, El Paso Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

• NCPA Chairman Gov. Pete du Pont said in his latest syndicated column for OpinionJournal.com that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's call for a referendum to control state spending and improve standards for the state's teachers is a bold and visionary move and deserves voter support. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/ . Gov. du Pont's remarks also appeared in the San Jose Mercury News.
• Brooke Rollins, president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, was July's Woman in the Economy; Michelle Bernard, senior vice president of Independent Women's Forum, was August's Woman in the Economy; and Ann Combs, assistant secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, was September's Woman in the Economy. http://www.womenintheeconomy.org .
• Gov. du Pont asked in his latest syndicated column for OpinionJournal.com if the Old Europe has finally decided that it needs to join the war on terror. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110007009 .
• NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett told NukeWorker.com on August 17 that the U.S. could reduce but not eliminate the need for a nuclear storage facility at Yucca Mountain (NV) by reprocessing and recycling spent fuel rods. His comments were also carried in SNL Generation Markets and State Recycling Laws Update.
• Burnett told Fox News.com in a two-part series on August 22 and 23 that several regulatory changes and tax incentives in the energy bill may boost production and lower prices, but perhaps not for a decade or so.
• Gov. du Pont said in his latest syndicated column for OpinionJournal.com that America needs stronger economic growth and the flat tax will provide it. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110007183 .
• Team NCPA, an all-volunteer educational initiative for Social Security reform, has added an information blog, The Filing Cabinet, to its new, revised Web site – http://www.teamncpa.org/ . The site continues to provide the latest information in the public policy debate about reform and retains the NCPA's unique Social Security calculator.
• The NCPA's Daily Policy Digest, a daily public policy newsletter that has over 7,000 readers, is now available as an RSS feed. Using your browser, just click on http://www.ncpa.org/rssfeed/ to see how to receive the DPD articles daily in your newsreader.

• In the July edition of Environment and Climate News NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett applauds Florida's new standard for listing endangered species.
• NCPA Senior Fellow and Public Trustee of Social Security and Medicare Thomas R. Saving told the July edition of Budget & Tax News that Social Security's insolvency is accelerating.
• The July edition of Reason Magazine features a review of Lives at Risk , an analysis of the failure of national health insurance to deliver on the promise of a right to health care. The book is co-authored by NCPA President Dr. John C. Goodman and Senior Fellows Gerald Musgrave and Devon Herrick . http://www.reason.com/ A review of Lives at Risk also appeared in the July 12 edition of The American Spectator.
• Burnett told the July 6 edition of the Washington Times that natural gas has become a boondoggle for public transportation companies, especially as a way to reduce air pollution.
• NCPA President Dr. John C. Goodman told the July 6 edition of the Washington Times that a consistent message for Social Security reform is important.
• Burnett told Agence France Presse on July 12 that the proposed boycott of Exxon-Mobil is a charade. His comments also appeared in the Deseret (Salt Lake City) Morning News and on Inter-Press Service/Global Information Network and Wisconsin Public Radio.
• NCPA Senior Policy Analyst Matt Moore told the July 18 edition of the Washington Times that the reason to save Social Security is the next generation.
• NCPA Senior Fellow Bruce Bartlett said in his syndicated column in the July 19 edition of the Washington Times that class envy is no reason to retain the estate tax. His comments also appeared in National Review.
• Bartlett told the July 21 edition of the New York Sun that the most pertinent question isn't whether the alternative minimum tax will be repealed but how revenue will be replaced after the tax is repealed.
• Burnett told the July 25 edition of Environment & Climate News that the new endangered species listing standards adopted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission are a change for the better. http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17346 .
• Bartlett told Investor's Business Daily on July 26 that it will be costly to reform the alternative minimum tax (AMT), but allowing deduction of state and local taxes might help. Bartlett's work on the AMT was also cited in a report on proposals to repeal the deduction for state and local taxes prepared by the Democratic staff of the House Ways & Means Committee.
• Burnett told the July 27 edition of Human Events that global warming is becoming more a religion than science. His comments also appeared in the Kansas City Star.
• Moore told the July 28 edition of the Marietta (GA) Times that proposed changes to Social Security, especially personal retirement accounts, will not leave seniors in poverty.
• Senior Fellow Devon Herrick told the August edition of Health Insurance Underwriter that self-managed care is changing the role of the patient.
• Burnett told Investor's Business Daily on August 2 that Rep. Joe Barton's call for an inquiry into the validity of federally funded studies is overdue and warranted.
• Burnett told the Bergen (NJ) Record on August 7 that we are not running out of oil. His remarks also appeared in the Duluth (MN) News and the Corvallis Gazette.
• Goodman said in a special commentary for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on August 8 that Texas taxpayers and students should reap the benefit of vouchers for public school choice. His commentary also appeared in the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise.
• Bartlett said in his weekly syndicated column for the Washington Times on August 10 that Sarbanes-Oxley is one of the primary factors restraining the stock market. His comments also appeared in National Review.
• Herrick told American Health Line on August 11 that many adults are uninsured simply because they prefer to spend their money on other things. His comments also appeared in the Washington Times.
• Herrick told the Associated Press on August 15 that South Carolina's Medicaid plan promotes personal responsibility. His comments appeared in several other news outlets, including CNN.com and Medical News Today.
• Burnett told CNS News Service on August 17 that the U.S. could reduce but not eliminate the need for a nuclear storage facility at Yucca Mountain (NV) by reprocessing and recycling spent fuel rods.
• Goodman told the August 19 edition of National Journal that some federal Medicaid rules make it difficult to set up Health Savings Accounts and co-payments for them.
• Moore told the Rochester (NY) Democrat & Chronicle on August 21 that Social Security and Medicare together will require one-third of everything Americans earn within just a few years.
• Burnett told Energy Biz Insider on August 23 that if people or businesses want more efficient appliances or equipment, the government need not help.
• Herrick told the Cincinnati Enquirer on August 23 that Medicare rate cuts are squeezing payments to doctors and patients will be the ones who suffer.
• The recent brief analysis written by Herrick and NCPA Research Assistant Paul Kittinger showing that consumers would benefit from over-the-counter drugs appeared in the August 24 edition of the Pharma Marketletter.
• NCPA Senior Manager Sean Tuffnell wrote in a special column for the August 24 edition of the Washington Times that it should no longer be acceptable just to criticize any of the 7 Social Security reform bills before Congress without offering a viable solution. His remarks also were quoted in the Social Security Information Center's newsletter published by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
• Bartlett said in his weekly syndicated column for the Washington Times on August 24 that if the prediction that the housing bubble will burst proves true, the financial pain will extend far beyond the housing market.
• Moore told the August 28 edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that cost of living may be a more important consideration for teacher compensation than base pay.
• Herrick told Investor's Business Daily on August 29 that Health Savings Accounts lower costs for employers and provide employees with more choice about how to spend their health care dollars.
• Burnett told the August 29 edition of Waste News that spent nuclear rods can be reprocessed to produce nuclear power.
• Herrick told the August 31 edition of the Dallas Morning News that being uninsured is often a matter of choice.
• Bartlett said in his weekly syndicated column for the Washington Times on August 31 that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's warnings about the housing market should be heeded in order to prevent a cooling market from collapsing. His remarks also appeared on MarketPlace (NPR).
• Bartlett told the September 5 edition of Forbes that Sarbanes-Oxley legislation is imposing a high cost on businesses.
• Burnett discussed energy prices and future legislation in the September 9 edition of the Dallas Business Journal. His remarks also appeared on KXYZ-AM (Houston).
• Goodman told the September 11 edition of The Dallas Morning News that President Bush's main problem in helping recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina is that he's dealing with a weak mayor of New Orleans and a weak governor of Lousiana.
• A new NCPA study concluding that adapting to global warming is better economic and social policy than trying to prevent it appeared in the September 15 edition of The White House Bulletin and in CNS News, E&E News , Human Events and Canadian Statistics. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st278/ .
• Goodman told the New York Times on September 20 that a new study concluding that a new generation of anti-psychotic drugs are far more expensive yet offer few additional benefits could cost state Medicaid programs millions of dollars.
• Burnett told the Christian Science Monitor 's September 20 edition that there has been very little done to maintain the nation's energy grid. His remarks also appeared in USA Today.
• Bartlett told the September 22 edition of the St. Petersburg Times that the cost of hurricanes Katrina and Rita may make it hard to extend the Bush tax cuts.
• Burnett told the Washington Post on September 24 that many native Alaskans support oil and gas production in ANWR.
• NCPA Senior Fellow Laurence Kotlikoff's article on Social Security reform, “Benefits Without Bankruptcy,” appeared in the New Republic .

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