The NCPA has a highly effective office in Washington, D.C. that sponsors Capitol Hill briefings, conferences and testimony by NCPA experts before congressional committees. The NCPA serves as a source of "outside the Beltway" thinking for Capitol Hill deliberations.

• Sep 12, 2007

  Testimony Concerning the Proposed NAAQS for Ozone: A Proposal that the EPA Take No Action as a Way of Avoiding Doing Great Harm Due to technological improvements and EPA's present standards, Ozone levels are declining and they will continue to do so.  Indeed, in the last few years only 19 percent of the nation's metropolitan areas violate EPA's current ozone standard, down from 40 percent just a few years ago.

• Sep 06, 2007

  The Alternative Minimum Tax Threatens Middle-Income Families: A Fair and Equitable Tax Policy Would Solve the Problem Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you for this opportunity to submit testimony on methods to achieve a fair and equitable tax system. My testimony draws heavily from research conducted by scholars at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), particularly from NCPA Brief Analysis numbers 537, 571, and 588 - all of which can be found at the ncpa.org website.

• Jun 21, 2007

  Modern Families; Outdated Laws The most significant economic and social change in the past half-century has been the movement of women into the labor market.  Since the 1950s, the labor participation rate of women ages 25 to 55 years has increased more than 75 percent.  Today, more than 60 percent of mothers with children under the age of six are working.

• Mar 29, 2007

  Testimony before the Senate Education Committee on Senate Bill 1506 Madam Chair, Senators, my name is Bob McTeer.  I'm representing the National Center for Policy Analysis, which is a nonpartisan, free-market think tank headquartered in Dallas.  Before coming to NCPA, I was Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System for two years, and before that I was President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas for 14 years.

• Mar 21, 2007

  Vaclav Klaus - Answers to questions from the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress, Committee on Energy and Commerce, on the issue of mankind's contribution to global warming and climate change Concerning mankind's contribution to climate change and in keeping with obligations towards the welfare of our citizens: what, in your view, should policymakers consider when addressing climate change?