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Jack Kemp
POLITICAL POLICIES
The Honorable Jack Kemp, Co-Director, Empower America
(former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
and former Member of Congress)
1996 - Jack Kemp in Support of Israel Jubilee Policy on Economic Growth
Aug. 11, 1996 - Kemp has a few words to swallow about Bob Dole
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March 27, 1997 - WHEN IMMIGRATION MEANT ASSIMILATION
April, 1997 - Global Warming and Other Myths
1997 - Jack Kemp on global Warming
http://reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-7.28.1997.5.html
Environmentalists opposed to the treaty say that those who do believe in global warming continue to hope that proof is just around the corner.
Sources: Jack Kemp (Empower America), "A Treaty Built on Hot Air... " and S. Fred Singer, "... Not Scientific Consensus," both from the Wall Street Journal, July 25, 1997.
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January, 1998 - Bigger questions were posed by Jack Kemp on Dec. 18 in a two-page memo to congressional Republican leaders. The Asian economic crisis, he said, "represents an opportunity for the IMF and World Bank to expand their reach and leverage by orders of magnitude. ... The IMF should not be permitted to use the economies of Asia as its latest experimental subjects for failed policies of the past."
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FEBRUARY 26, 1998 -KEMP AND SADDAM
In a speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council Monday, the 1996 vice presidential candidate declared: "At some point in the distant future -- after we have reached a reasonable level of comfort through a successful inspections process -- we must be willing to lift the sanctions and rely on deterrents to ensure that any weapons we may have missed will never be used."
Kemp also courageously suggested what has been clear worldwide but not uttered by U.S. officials or members of Congress. Kemp said that based upon Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's statements, he could give credence to the interpretation that "our demand for unfettered and unlimited access to the so-called presidential palaces was merely a pretext for escalating the conflict."
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June 6, 1998 - Jack Kemp, trying to restore the supply-side spirit, told Kasich that $100 billion in tax cuts were "minuscule" considering the $1 trillion surplus expected over five years. Kasich moved to use some of this surplus to cut the payroll tax and open new "personal" taxpayer accounts as a start to privatizing Social Security. While not nearly the broad-based tax cut Kemp wanted, it had the advantage of being supported by Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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September 1, 1998. America the Vulnerable and Missile Defenses
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http://www.shepherd-express.com/shepherd/20/04/news_and_views/the_state_of_politics.html
January 21, 1999 Some years ago, former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp opened an address to a national convention of the NAACP by apologizing for not having been a participant in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. But, he added, apologies are not enough.
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February 3, 1999 - Jack Kemp on the African Growth and Opportunity Act
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April, 1999 - Pro-Green, Pro-Growth: A Q&A with Jack Kemp
The whole accord is premised on the notion that man-made warming of the climate on our planet has been going on during the Industrial Age. Now, we don't know that. We have no idea if that's true or not. There's a lot of reason to think it's not true because the climate record shows that a lot of the warming in this century predated the introduction of the internal combustion engine into widespread use, which appears to be a return to more normal temperatures after an unusually cool historical period. If that's so, then it's not likely that fossil fuels emissions – from burning oil and gas and coal — have a lot to do with whatever is going on in the climate.
Second, even if the world is warming, is it warming so fast that it's causing problems? Or is it possibly even an economic positive? We don't know. It might actually be a plus for the economy, or it might be a wash.
So we don't really know if global warming is really occurring; if it is, we don't know if it has anything to do with fossil fuels. And we don't know if any of this would have a positive or negative economic impact. All the legs on which the Kyoto accord is built are wobbly; it's built on a fragile chain of reasoning in which every link is weak.
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April 29, 1999 - Jack Kemp Named Distinguised Fellow At Competitive Enterprise Institute
Mr. Kemp will work primarily on promoting rational, free-market environmental policies and on raising awareness of international efforts to restrict economic growth.
SEA-LEVEL RISE: IS GLOBAL WARMING TO BLAME?
CEI SAYS: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to peddle unfounded fears about global warming and sea level rise even though there is no evidence to support such scares, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). This week the EPA is sponsoring conferences in Miami and Marathon, Florida to discuss the impacts of global warming on Southern Florida and the Florida Keys, and to discuss solutions to the alleged problem.
CEI: April 30, 1999 - ATTACKS NEW EPA AUTO EMISSIONS PROPOSAL
CEI: May 6, 1999 - Blasts EPA’s "Worst Case Scenario" Info Release
CEI: May 25, 1999 -Sea Level Debate is Flooded with Misinformation
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
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June 7, 1999 - Houghton Lake Rotary club
June 9, 1999 - Jack Kemp on Justice
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August 10, 1999 - The Debate On American Poverty: Aid To Neighborhoods Or People? Fighting crime, fixing roads and schools key, experts say. But they agree on little else
The government offers tax breaks and other funding to these empowerment zones, or enterprise zones, to encourage businesses to set up shop there. The idea appeals to many conservatives. Supply-sider Jack Kemp has long touted enterprise zones to encourage self-reliance.
Nov. 12, 1999 - Jack Kemp Against the Internet Tax - Jack Kemp Applauds Governor Gilmore’s Tax Leadership , Washington, DC, November. 12, 1999 -- Empower America Co-Director Jack Kemp praised Virginia Governor James Gilmore for taking a strong stand against regulation and taxation of the booming online market.
Nov. 12, 199 - Jack Kemp Criticizes Tax Proposals
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"There are no limits on our future if we don't put limits on our people."-Jack Kemp, April 6, 1987.
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9904.deparle.silence.html
By the mid-'80s, conservative intellectuals like Charles Murray (in his pre-Bell Curve days) and conservative politicians like Jack Kemp began to argue that the poor were as competent as anyone else--but restrained by artificial disadvantage. Only in their view, the artificial disadvantage was anti-poverty programs like welfare--"the liberal Government plantation," as Kemp liked to say. Abolish these programs, conservatives said--and the poor will flourish like anyone else.
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1999 - Former Secretary of Housing, Jack Kemp stated, "Some of the interesting statistics of the trip are: Trade with Africa has grown by 32.1% over the last three years, which is on par with total U.S. Trade expansion during the same period. U.S. investments in the sub-Saharan Region has by far the highest rate of return with 31% in 1996, compared with Latin America (12%), the Asia-Pacific Region (13%) and the Middle East (17%). Sub-Saharan African constitutes a market of over 600-million people, a vast, tremendously untapped resource that would react most favorably to a U.S.-African trade partnership." As one of the luncheon speakers, he pledged to be a voice to the American people and the U.S. Congress urging positive action on seven fronts that will help create a U.S. African partnership for the 21st Century. He stated that, "I believe America must enter the next millennium with a firm commitment to the principles of democracy and growth and give hope and opportunity to the people of African and countless people around the world for democratization, open trade and rising prosperity".
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Fearing that all Americans were about to be digitally tattooed under the government's paranoiac guise of catching everything from aliens to dead beat dads, Congressman Dick Armey (R-TX) was one of the first to voice his opinion. Armey called the move, "an abomination and wholly at odds with the American tradition of individual freedom." Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) joined Armey in signing a letter denouncing the computer registry and tracking system and Jack Kemp announced in the New York Times that this was, "an anti-privacy, anti-business and anti-American approach" and that "it was no way to run immigration policy." Of course, all this was said before the bills were covertly inserted in the last defense bill. It is possiable that many congressmen don't even know the proposed legislation has become law.
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.1999 - As Jack Kemp of Empower America puts it, "Quite simply, NATO miscalculated." The blunders and miscalculations by all parties continue. "Make no mistake. Once we go in, there is no coming out," he warns.
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NPR's John Nielsen reports on Jack Kemp's ideas for attacking the problems of central cities, ideas that go back to his days as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Bush administration. Morning Edition, August 29.
Hear this story
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EVEN JACK KEMP SAYS GOP LACKS PRINCIPLE
1996 GOP Vice Presidential nominee Jack Kemp "said his very close friends in the congressional GOP leadership ‘have squandered [Ronald Reagan's] bequest to the party of Lincoln.’ Although Republican candidates across the country campaign for tax cuts, Kemp said, ‘voters may think a political party whose leaders are unwilling to risk losing a vote on principle once it is in office is unworthy of winning the next election.’"
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All Things Considered (NPR) August 29, 1996
Segment # 6 : Kemp Has Long-Held Belief in Revitalizing Inner Cities
ALEX CHADWICK, Host: While he was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Bush administration, Jack Kemp launched a series of programs to overhaul the nation's public housing system and lure businesses to inner cities, though critics say the reform efforts never achieved much.
NPR's John Nielsen reports.
JOHN NIELSEN, Reporter: For years, Jack Kemp has been urging his fellow Republicans to pay more attention of the problems of cities and the people who live in them. At the Republican convention in San Diego, he turned that plea into a promise.
JACK KEMP (R), Vice Presidential Nominee: -the American society, as a whole, that never achieved the outer reaches of its potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. And I can tell you that Bob Dole and Jack Kemp will not tolerate that despair in our nation's cities.
JOHN NIELSEN: As an urban congressman and then as George Bush's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Kemp gained fame by pushing ambitious proposals to overhaul the federal government's principal urban aid programs. Conservative urban activist Robert Woodson [sp], a friend and a colleague, says Kemp did it because he was convinced that these programs had become a burden to the people who depended on them.
ROBERT WOODSON, Conservative Urban Activist: Jack Kemp really believes that people should be agents of their own revitalization, their own restoration, and therefore they must be given the tools and the means to reclaim their own lives and reclaim their own communities.
JOHN NIELSEN: In Congress, Kemp pushed a series of bills that would have slashed federal taxes in urban enterprise zones designed to lure new investors into depressed urban centers. As HUD secretary he tried to encourage residents of public housing to purchase their apartment as a first step towards privatization of the public housing system. At congressional hearings through the '80s and into the '90s, Kemp made it clear that few issues were more important to him than these.
JACK KEMP: And I think it's immoral - I think it's immoral to preach democracy and capitalism in Eastern Europe and not allow it to work in Eastern New York or East St. Louis or East L.A.
JOHN NIELSEN: Attitudes like these helped earn Kemp the respect of civil rights leaders and some urban activists, but they didn't do much for the proposed reforms. Bills that would have slashed taxes in enterprise zones were viewed very skeptically by Democratic Congresses and many of Kemp's colleagues inside the Bush administration. At the same time, Kemp's plan to encourage residents of public housing to buy their apartments seemed to fizzle for more basic reasons.
Cushing Dolbear [sp], former director of the nonprofit National Low Income Housing Coalition, says most of the potential buyers in this situation lacked the money and the interest. Dolbear says one public housing tenant explained it to her this way.
CUSHING DOLBEAR, Former Director, National Low-Income Housing Coalition: ``Aren't you ever going to learn that when we buy- if we ever get so we can buy houses, we're not going to buy this junk?''
JOHN NIELSEN: Richard Cowden [sp], the director of a group of state and local officials who've set up local enterprise zones, says it may be fortunate that Kemp never succeeded in setting up a national version of this program. Cowden says he and others tried to convince Kemp that tax cuts alone weren't enough to draw new investors to depressed urban centers, but Kemp wouldn't hear it, he says. As a result-
RICHARD COWDEN, Local Enterprise Zone Advocate: Practically everybody who knows something about urban economics and public administration regards him as naive.
JOHN NIELSEN: But Kemp's attempts to reform federal urban aid programs did catch the eye of the Clinton administration. President Clinton's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros, says people who live in public housing are still being encouraged to buy their apartments as part of a larger overhaul of the public housing system, and Kemp's proposed enterprise zones are the obvious model for the Clinton administration's empowerment zone program which tries to lure investors with limited tax breaks and federal aid packages. The Clinton administration is expected to expand this program soon.
If and when that happens, it's not clear how the Dole-Kemp ticket will respond. But Cushing Dolbear, a critic of many of Kemp's ideas, insists that for now that's not important. What's important, Dolbear says, is that for the first time in decades an urban policy argument may help shape a national election. These are issues that many voters have learned to avoid, Dolbear says.
CUSHING DOLBEAR: What people don't realize is, that there's increasing evidence that, if the city really dies, the metropolitan area doesn't thrive either, and so the people who are now living comfortable suburban lives - their children may not live quite such comfortable lives if we don't pay attention to what's happening to the centers of our urban areas.
JOHN NIELSEN: One possible barrier to the emergence of urban revival as a major campaign issue is the Republican presidential nominee. As a senator, Bob Dole was openly skeptical of Kemp's proposals.
I'm John Nielsen in Washington.
[This program has been professionally transcribed by Journal Graphics. JG has used its best efforts to assure the transcript accurately reflects NPR's original broadcast, but makes no guarantees or representations that the transcription is identical to the original NPR broadcast. The official record of an NPR broadcast is the audio tape of the original broadcast.]
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By Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich - 1996
To help make this vision a reality, we named Jack Kemp, one of America's most innovative thinkers on economic policy, to head the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform -- a commission that included thirteen more outstanding Americans.
The entire commission worked diligently for the past several months, holding public hearings in eight cities, while constantly thinking about how to create a better tax system. Their final report is guaranteed to stimulate this important national dialogue. It will surely serve as a catalyst for congressional hearings and debate. We hope that it will also trigger conversations around kitchen tables, water coolers, and in town hall meetings across the country.
We invite all those who read this report to write us with your thoughts on its recommendations and conclusions, and to share with us other suggestions on how we can create a tax system that promotes economic growth and opportunity for all Americans.
Senate Leader Bob Dole
House Speaker Newt Gingrich
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