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.

• 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?

• Jan 31, 2007

  Statement on Modern Families; Outdated Laws The most important problems faced by middle-income working families today are not problems that arise from the nature of our economic system.  Instead they are problems caused by outdated public policies.

• Jan 10, 2007

  Statement on Consumer Driven Health Care Health care is on a course to crowd out every other government program - from education and roads and bridges to Social Security and national defense.  And for the economy as a whole, health care is on a course to crowd.

• Dec 06, 2006

  Climate Change and the Media There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming.

• Sep 26, 2006

  Statement on Health Savings Accounts Government at all levels in the United States currently spends about 7.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, mainly on Medicare and Medicaid.  Yet Christian Hagist and Laurence J. Kotlikoff have shown that if benefits expand at the rate of the past 30 years and if the population ages the way demographers predict, government health care spending will equal one-third of national income by mid-century, when today's college students reach the retirement age.