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Organizer-in-Chief: Did Barack Obama Actually Do Something When He Was a Community Organizer?

Chicago Daily Observer — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:19:51 +0000

Just twenty or so years ago, Barack Obama wouldn’t just have supported the Occupy protests.

He would have organized them.

From Stanley Kurtz’s essential Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, pp. 117-8:

In fact, Obama personally helped plan one of UNO’s most confrontational actions of the eighties [in 1988]: a break-in meant to intimidate a coalition of local business and neighborhood leaders into dropping a landfill expansion deal.

Here’s UNO today, working insider deals and supporting Mayor Emanuel

State of Illinois Can Discriminate Against Catholic Charities

Catholic Vote Action — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:12:25 +0000

A judge ruled yesterday that the State of Illinois can cancel its contracts with various Catholic Charities agencies in Illinois, despite his previous decision to halt that cancellation.

In his ruling, available at the Thomas More Society website, the judge did not rule on the Dioceses’ claims of religious discrimination, but instead declared, in only about two pages, that the plaintiffs are not entitled to contract with the state.

The judge seems to have missed the point, possibly in trying to find an “easy” way to resolve this case. It is illegal for Illinois to discriminate against Catholic Charities on the basis of their religious practices about marriage, regardless of whether they have an independent “property right” in contracts. Once the state decides to contract with agencies, it can’t religiously discriminate, and it is not excused in doing so on the theory that no one has an absolute entitlement to a contract.

Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Gone Out of Hand?

John Powers — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:29:10 +0000

I’m for law and order, the way that it should be.
This song’s about the night they spent protecting you from me.

Don’t you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?
What started out to be a joke, the law don’t understand.

Waylon Jennings, the “Outlaw” Country legend, wrote the above in 1978, in a self examination of his public persona vs. the fact that he really didn’t like being arrested. Making himself out to be an “Outlaw” artist tended to attract not only other real outlaws, but law enforcement as well.

Wednesday night, aging Hip-Hop Artist Common visited the White House in what sounds like an excruciating evening of poetry reading along with former poets laureate Billy Collins and Rita Dove, singer (Sean Penn’s Sister-in-Law) Aimee Mann and comedian-musician Steve Martin and his bluegrass group the Steep Canyon Rangers.

Common’s poetry/lyrics feature the usual subjects of love, lust, violence, gunplay and per Karl Rove a call for violence against police officer, and called for killing the former president of the United States George W. Bush. Sean Hannity, Mike Medved and good chunk of the conservative media has condemned the invitation as a promotion of the negative aspects of American culture, with the implied connections of the Hip Hop and Rap Industry to the gangsterism and thuggishness.

Never fear, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has defended the decision to invite Common.

“It’s ironic to pick out those particular lyrics and – about this particular artist, when in fact, he’s known as a socially conscious hip-hop artist or rapper who has done a lot of good things,” Carney said.

Carney also said the president opposed offensive lyrics.

which is perhaps the most striking to me. Why should the President of the United States have an opinion whatsoever on the lyrics of a particular artist? When Paul McCartney sang, “I used to be cruel to my woman/I beat her” did anyone need to care if LBJ opposed Paul’s meanderings, or was Lyndon’s silence an implied approval of Paul’s woman-beating?

I find it troubling that neither the Conservatives nor the Leftists can separate artistic work from real life. Not every song, not every movie, not every poetry reading needs some type of disclaimer on it to protect the customer from the unpleasantry of the art, nor is there much of any reason for the Government to be promoting one type of art over another.

I have enjoyed Waylon Jennings music for 30 years plus now, and I don’t plan to change to make Jay Carney and Karl Rove happy. I have not listened much to Common, though I will if I want, and so can the President, without my objections. I suggest if he objects to Common’s lyrics, that our Grammy winning President can try writing his own uplifting lyrics and can easily win another coveted award.

Here’s a little Cocaine Blues from 4 time White House visitor Johnny Cash (as played by Joaquin Phoenix) to get you through the day.

Early one mornin’ while makin’ the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed
I stuck that lovin’ .44 beneath my head

John Powers is President of the Chicago Daily Observer. He does not endorse the lifestyles portrayed by Waylon Jennings, Common, or Johnny Cash.

It’s Time for More Taxes. Here’s a New One, The Financial Transactions Tax

Don Rose — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:22:19 +0000

Taxophobia is endemic among Americans and by extension their pandering politicians, local state and national. It took an amazing amount of courage for Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to run advocating a state income tax increase, and even more amazingly he won, proving you can sometimes make a very difficult case to the electorate.

We need increased revenues at virtually every governmental level in the nation. It’s utter nonsense to believe we can or should cut spending enough to pull us out of our financial holes—though ending military excesses and the fiscal hemophilia of our ongoing wars would be giant steps in the right direction.

Obviously, we should end the Bush-Obama tax cuts for the very rich. But there is yet another tax that can be imposed—here in Chicago and on the national level—that can provide impressive new revenues without touching a dime of most citizens’ pocketbooks.

It’s the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT)—a very low sales tax on certain specialized financial “products” on various exchanges. No, it won’t affect ordinary stock, bond, option or mutual fund purchases—or retirement programs. The tax would apply only to exotica such as index futures, options on index futures, currency futures and related speculative investments—the kind of fancy money manipulations that helped put us in the hole in the first place.

Buyers and sellers of those speculative investments would pay a small tax on each contract, which would be collected by the Chicago Board Options Exchange or Chicago Mercantile Exchange the way ordinary merchants collect the sales tax.

Bill Barclay, a 22-year veteran of Chicago exchanges and a founding member of the Chicago Political Economy Group, calculates that a municipal tax of ten cents per contract traded on the two exchanges would have netted the city $607 million in 2008 and $462 million in 2009. Goodbye $655 million deficit, hello tax relief!

While mayoral candidates Rahm Emanuel and Gery Chico snipe at each other about whether to tax limousine services or gymnasiums—quietly hoping for a casino to generate new revenues—only Miguel del Valle has mentioned a local FTT. Unfortunately it’s not a centerpiece of his campaign.

The FTT is not a radical new soak-the-rich idea. This country had various forms of stock transfer taxes between the Civil War and 1960. New York has an FTT but strangely rebates it to Wall Street’s fat cats.

Meanwhile, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin and Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio have introduced a federal version to the Congress. Nobel Laureate economists James Tobin and Paul Krugman support the concept to control speculation—as does the more Wall Street oriented Larry Summers. Conservative heads of state across Europe, including Germany’s Angela Merkel also favor it.

The complexities in devising a local or federal FTT are immense. The most powerful financial interests in America will fight it tooth and nail. But it’s an idea whose time has come again.

Don Rose is a regular columnist for the Chicago Daily Observer

If Mary Mitchell Ignores a Story, Did It Actually Happen?

John Powers — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:29:28 +0000

Speaking at a City Club Luncheon, the Sun-Times Mary Mitchell declared (at around the 25 minute mark)

“if bill brady wakes up and he is not the governor i think it is because he has really taken for granted that all he needs is a certain segment of the population to win this election and not doing enough to go out and court the minority vote to show he is able to understand the what the issues are outside of the communities of his own. I think he has done a poor job bringing together a constituency other than those he already has”

which made me scratch my head a bit. I am in contact with someone on the Brady for Illinois campaign pretty much every day, and have heard quite a bit about the outreach efforts.

A group of volunteers has recruited over 500 new Republicans to be election judges in Chicago this year, giving the Republicans a full slate of election judges for the first time in memory. These same volunteers have distributed over 100,000 election fliers, 20,000 door hanging sets and 1500 yard signs, walking the streets in many South Side neighborhoods.

I interpret that there is a predominatnly African American Tea Party movement on the South and West Sides of Chicago that are not going to support Democrats this time, and may form the backbone of a new city-wide Republican party.

This Sunday, Bill Brady (and Pat Quinn) will appear at Rev-Sen. James Meeks House of Hope for Sunday Service. Brady has campaign alongside Rev. Meeks on various issues, such as school choice and Wal-Mart openings.

Rev. Issac Hayes has also campaigned alongside Brady in his battle against the entrenched Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Roger Keats has campaigned along with Brady in many South and West Side Districts previously written off as unwinnable by Cook County Republicans.

So aside from an higher level of support for Republicans not seen in over 50 years, Brady has done a poor job bringing together a constituency. Perhaps it is Mitchell who is doing the poor job in understanding 2010′s election.

John Powers is the President of the Chicago Daily Observer

Daylight Robbery and the Tanning Tax

John Powers — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:25:23 +0000

A jaw dropping 650,000 people left the job market in the US in May. That is equivalent to the entire population of Milwaukee just sitting down for a month, not working and not looking for work either. Thankfully, Washington has a plan to get us back to prosperity, that shows what we get when we turn over our liberty to our smartest president ever: A new tax on Tanning Beds.

Brilliant! Only those vain people of pallor will get stuck footing the bill, but the entire nation will benefit from the ultra violet tariff, because the Fed’s spend our money wisely on job creation, affordable healthcare, and various vote buying schemes to replace the missing Milwaukee economy.

I am currently reading Bill Bryson’s “At Home“, which has a very good section on the Window and Glass Tax (Daylight Robbery, per the wit) which was concocted to punish the vanity of window usage, but in the meantime choked the glass industry for 100 years or so. Unintended consequences set in, servants rooms became bricked over, and the tax was unpopular among rich and poor alike. The tax lasted till 1851, a year that coincided with the introduction of massive greenhouses providing year round fresh vegetables, and the Crystal Palace with its 293,655 panels of tax free glass dazzling visitors to London’s Great Exhibition of 1851.

The IRS has a helpful set of tips to get the Tanning Salon industries to fund our madness, with such scorching prose as “The tax does not apply to phototherapy services performed by a licensed medical professional on his or her premises”, which must come as a great relief for eczema sufferers everywhere. I can see the massive eczema lobby mobilizing it resources to beg Dick Durbin and Roland Burris to spare them Washington’s general punishment of it’s citizenry, complete with heart wrenching photos of seniors with blotchy skin and itchy infants.

Perhaps a prayer would be appropriate

O’ DemiLords Durbin and Burris, beseech us with your wisdom of phototherapy and discernment of the shame which our eczema has brought. Make us worthy of your mercy and deliver our tanning beds from clutches of the vain to save us from the unsightly blotch.

That should do it.

The Indoor Tanning Association has it by the numbers, and is not exactly buying the idea of sacrificing their members business to make DC’s case for them.

2.7 billion: The amount of money the IRS plans to collect from small businesses over the next 10 years from this tax.

10: Percent of the American public who visit an indoor tanning facility each year.

~19,000: Number of “mom and pop” small businesses who may be affected by the new tax.

75: Percent of indoor tanning businesses’ employees and customers who are women.

26: The number of lines in the 906-page healthcare law devoted to the “suntan” tax.

12: Number of pages it takes the IRS to explain the rules to comply with the complicated “suntan tax.”

4: Number of times the suntan tax is reported and paid each year.

36: Number of hours estimated by the IRS to complete and file Form 720, prior to the IRS revising and adding the new suntan tax to it.

>$74: Average cost, per hour, spent by small businesses to comply with federal tax paperwork burdens.

>4 million: Quantity of postcards mailed to small businesses alerting them to the availability of a small business tax credit.

0: Number of postcards sent to alert tanning businesses of the new tax on their business.

2: Number of weeks in advance small businesses received the regulations for complying with the new suntan tax.

I was speculating on tax avoidance schemes (a trip outside? some self-tanner? a special free-tanning-tax zone in East Moline? a newfound respect for my Irish pallor?), but the news got ahead of me. Qualified fitness centers, that offer tanning services, are exempted from the 10% tax, setting up a rush of new “fitness centers” to replace the simple tanning salons. A spokesman for the esteemed Indoor Tanning Association predicts the tax will not succeed. With such a well-thought out plan as Congress and the Obama administration have delivered, what could possibly go wrong?

John Powers is the President of the Chicago Daily Observer and a known SPF-50 sunscreen user.

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All in the Family: Quinn Hires Legislators’ Wives

Chicago Sun-Times — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:50:36 +0000

The state’s budget meltdown did not prevent the wives of two Democratic lawmakers from landing six-figure state paychecks thanks to Gov. Quinn and the Illinois Senate.

The spouse of Rep. Michael Zalewski (D-Chicago) nearly doubled her state salary when Quinn named her to a $117,043-a-year spot on the Illinois Pollution Control Board.

Everybody’s Talking about Taxes. Do They Know Anything about Taxes?

John Powers — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:28:30 +0000

From Rich Miller, re Bill Brady’s tax returns

“So, instead of fading away into the weekend, the story kept going strong. Editorial boards and columnists weighed in. Reporters started combing through what they had for more tidbits, and in the meantime they wrote stories about Brady’s refusal to provide them with copies of his returns as Gov. Quinn had done.”

Especially Rich Miller, who is marketing this story as both a testimonial to his lack of understanding of basic accounting principles or a partisan attack against the Republican candidate.

In Illinois, we have S type corporations and LLC’s both of which allow corporate losses to offset personal taxes. If you lose more money than gross, you don’t pay income taxes. It is not a loophole. It is a well established rule that income taxes are assessed against Net Income, not Gross Income.

You still pay State and Federal employment taxes, withholding tax for employees, sales tax, property tax, and any number of other taxes, and in the building industry permits, variances, and fees associated with the ability to run your business.

Running a small (or a big business for that matter) business is hard enough without the sniping of media types who are willfully ignoring tax accounting to smear an opposition candidate. If the media wants to change tax laws to hit gross income rather than net income, go ahead, but don’t fault a candidate for following the current law.

John Powers is the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Chicago Daily Observer

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The Optimism of Gary Becker

Brian Wesbury — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:19:17 +0000

Nobel prize winner Gary Becker gave an interview to Peter Robinson last week, published in the Wall Street Journal. Becker, 79, is a founder of the Chicago school of economics (with Milton Friedman). His views are always important and you should read the interview.

Becker said the financial crisis did not undermine his belief in free markets. When asked if he agrees with arguments about the inevitability of US economic decline – as Lilliputian government activity ties the economy down with protectionism and redistribution – Becker remained hopeful. “If you have competing interest groups you don’t end up with a systematic bias toward bad policy.”

As an example, he talked about the outrage Americans felt toward the Wall Street bailout. He believes the outrage stemmed from a “belief in individual responsibility—the belief that people ought to be free to make their own decisions, but should then bear the consequences…” He said this underlying philosophy “…remains very powerful” and added, “The American people don’t want an expansion of government…. They want limited government….I expect them to say so in the elections this November.”

We hope he is right. We have expressed similar beliefs and while we agree that the November elections could be a major watershed, we are still worried about the future. No matter which party is in control, government seems to grow. In fact, even though they stand in opposition to recent action, Republicans are certainly responsible for the drift of policy. Republicans voted for the $180 billion Bush stimulus bill in February 2008 and a $700 billion dollar bailout of the banks (TARP) in September 2008. By doing this, Republicans implicitly argued that the system could not heal on its own. And if the financial system must be saved by government, why not the health care system? Let’s not kid ourselves, if John McCain were President, the US would have enacted a slightly less aggressive health care bill (and maybe even cap and trade) – with Republican votes.

Becker argues that the Fed, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, deserve a heap of blame, but then he adds an interesting twist, saying “economists paid too little attention to the systemic risks—the risks [new financial] instruments posed for the whole financial system—as opposed to the risks they posed for individual institutions…..I wasn’t surprised that we had a financial crisis. But I was surprised that the financial crisis spilled over into the real economy.”

While difficult to do, this is where we disagree. Inadvertently, Becker is blaming technology (in this case, new financial instruments) for the crisis. But as our readers know, it was an accounting rule (mark-to-market) that pushed the crisis onto the real economy. Despite tons of government action the markets did not bottom until March 2009, when mark-to-market accounting was finally corrected.

With this in mind, we pensively wait for November. Let‘s hope Becker is right: When a bunch of scrappy American voters get to the polls they can straighten out these politicians.

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Brian Wesbury is a regular columnist for the Chicago Daily Observer. Read more from Brian at FT Portfolios

(Archive) From the People Who Brought You Tony Rezko and Stuart Levine: 111 New Federal Boards and Commissions

Chicago Daily Observer — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:17:14 +0000

The President is a man of principle. The WaPo reports:

Obama said he told House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) that his core goals — lowering health-care costs for businesses and individuals and expanding coverage to the uninsured — remained non-negotiable.

So what better way to increase productivity and lower costs than to add 111 new boards and commissionsto the slick infrastructure of health care provision in the US?

1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)
2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62)
3. Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, p. 72)
4. Program of administrative simplification (Section 115, p. 76)
5. Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)
6. Health Choices Administration (Section 241, p. 131)
7. Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 244, p. 138)
8. Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155)
9. Technical assistance to employees of small businesses buying Exchange coverage (Section 305(h), p. 191)
10. Insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Commissioner (Section 306(b), p. 194)
11. Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 307, p. 195)
12. State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 308, p. 197)
13. Grant program for health insurance cooperatives (Section 310, p. 206)
14. Public Health Insurance Option (Section 321, p. 211)
15. Ombudsman for Public Health Insurance Option (Section 321(d), p. 213)
16. Account for receipts and disbursements for Public Health Insurance Option (Section 322(b), p. 215)
17. Tele health Advisory Committee (Section 1191 (b), p. 589)
18. Demonstration program providing for culturally and linguistically appropriate services (Sec 1222, p. 617)
19. Demonstration program for shared decision making using patient decision aids (Section 1236, p. 648)
20. Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicare (Section 1301, p. 653)
21. Independent patient-centered medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302, p. 672)
22. Community-based medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302(d), p. 681)
23. Independence at home demonstration program (Section 1312, p. 718)
24. Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (Section 1401(a), p. 734)
25. Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission (Section 1401(a), p. 738)
26. Patient ombudsman for comparative effectiveness research (Section 1401(a), p. 753)
27. Q/A and performance improvement program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1412 (b)(1), p. 784)
28. Q/A and performance improvement program for nursing facilities (Section 1412 (b)(2), p. 786)
29. Special focus facility program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1413(a)(3), p. 796)
30. Special focus facility program for nursing facilities (Section 1413(b)(3), p. 804)
31. Independent monitor pilot program for skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities (Section 1422, p. 859)
32. Demonstration program for approved teaching health centers for Medicare GME (Section 1502(d), p. 933)
33. Pilot program to develop anti-fraud compliance systems for Medicare providers (Section 1635, p. 978)
34. Special Inspector General for the Health Insurance Exchange (Section 1647, p. 1000)
35. Medical home pilot program under Medicaid (Section 1722, p. 1058)
36. Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicaid (Section 1730A, p. 1073)
37. Nursing facility supplemental payment program (Section 1745, p. 1106)
38. Demonstration program for Medicaid medical conditions for mental diseases (Sec 1787, p. 1149)
39. Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund (Section 1802, p. 1162)
40. Identifiable office or program for coordination between Medicare and Medicaid (Section 1905, p. 1191)
41. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Section 1907, p. 1198)
42. Public Health Investment Fund (Section 2002, p. 1214)
43. Scholarships for service in health professional needs areas (Section 2211, p. 1224)
44. Program for training medical residents in community-based settings (Section 2214, p. 1236)
45. Grant program for training in dentistry programs (Section 2215, p. 1240)
46. Public Health Workforce Corps (Section 2231, p. 1253)
47. Public health workforce scholarship program (Section 2231, p. 1254)
48. Public health workforce loan forgiveness program (Section 2231, p. 1258)
49. Grant program for innovations in interdisciplinary care (Section 2252, p. 1272)
50. Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Evaluation and Assessment (Section 2261, p. 1275)
51. Prevention and Wellness Trust (Section 2301, p. 1286)
52. Clinical Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 1295)
53. Community Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 1301)
54. Grant program for community prevention and wellness research (Section 2301, p. 1305)
55. Grant program for research and demonstration projects for wellness incentives (Section 2301, p. 1305)
56. Grant program for community prevention and wellness services (Section 2301, p. 1308)
57. Grant program for public health infrastructure (Section 2301, p. 1313)
58. Center for Quality Improvement (Section 2401, p. 1322)
59. Assistant Secretary for Health Information (Section 2402, p. 1330)
60. Grant program to support the operation of school-based health clinics (Section 2511, p. 1352)
61. Grant program for nurse-managed health centers (Section 2512, p. 1361)
62. Grants for labor-management programs for nursing training (Section 2521, p. 1372)
63. Grant program for interdisciplinary mental and behavioral health training (Section 2522, p. 1382)
64. No Child Left Unimmunized Against Influenza demonstration grant program (Section 2524, p. 1391)
65. Healthy Teen Initiative grant program regarding teen pregnancy (Section 2526, p. 1398)
66. Grant program for interdisciplinary training, education, and services for autism (Section 2527(a), p. 1402)
67. University centers for excellence in developmental disabilities education (Section 2527(b), p. 1410)
68. Grant program to implement medication therapy management services (Section 2528, p. 1412)
69. Grant program to promote positive health behaviors in underserved communities (Section 2530, p. 1422)
70. Grant program for State alternative medical liability laws (Section 2531, p. 1431)
71. Grant program to develop infant mortality programs (Section 2532, p. 1433)
72. Grant program to prepare secondary school students for health care training (Section 2533, p. 1437)
73. Grant program for community-based collaborative care (Section 2534, p. 1440)
74. Grant program for community-based overweight and obesity prevention (Section 2535, p. 1457)
75. Grant program for reducing the student-to-school nurse ratio (Section 2536, p. 1462)
76. Demonstration project of grants to medical-legal partnerships (Section 2537, p. 1464)
77. Center for Emergency Care (Section 2552, p. 1478)
78. Council for Emergency Care (Section 2552, p 1479)
79. Grant program to support demonstration programs for regionalized emergency care (Section 2553, p. 1480)
80. Grant program to assist veterans who wish to become EMTs (Section 2554, p. 1487)
81. Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (Section 2562, p. 1494)
82. National Medical Device Registry (Section 2571, p. 1501)
83. CLASS Independence Fund (Section 2581, p. 1597)
84. CLASS Independence Fund Board of Trustees (Section 2581, p. 1598)
85. CLASS Independence Advisory Council (Section 2581, p. 1602)
86. Health and Human Services Coordinating Committee on Womens Health (Section 2588, p. 1610)
87. National Womens Health Information Center (Section 2588, p. 1611)
88. Centers for Disease Control Office of Womens Health (Section 2588, p. 1614)
89. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Office of Womens Health Research (Section 2588, p. 1617)
90. Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Womens Health (Section 2588, p. 1618)
91. Food and Drug Administration Office of Womens Health (Section 2588, p. 1621)
92. Personal Care Attendant Workforce Advisory Panel (Section 2589(a)(2), p. 1624)
93. Grant program for national health workforce online training (Section 2591, p. 1629)
94. Grant program to disseminate best practices on implementing health workforce (Section 2591, p. 1632)
95. Demonstration program for chronic shortages of health professionals (Section 3101, p. 1717)
96. Demonstration program for substance abuse counselor educational curricula (Section 3101, p. 1719)
97. Program of Indian community education on mental illness (Section 3101, p. 1722)
98. Intergovernmental Task Force on Indian environmental and nuclear hazards (Section 3101, p. 1754)
99. Office of Indian Mens Health (Section 3101, p. 1765)
100. Indian Health facilities appropriation advisory board (Section 3101, p. 1774)
101. Indian Health facilities needs assessment workgroup (Section 3101, p. 1775)
102. Indian Health Service tribal facilities joint venture demonstration projects (Section 3101, p. 1809)
103. Urban youth treatment center demonstration project (Section 3101, p. 1873)
104. Grants to Urban Indian Organizations for diabetes prevention (Section 3101, p. 1874)
105. Grants to Urban Indian Organizations for health IT adoption (Section 3101, p. 1877)
106. Mental health technician training program (Section 3101, p. 1898)
107. Indian youth telemental health demonstration project (Section 3101, p. 1909)
108. Program for treatment of child sexual abuse victims and perpetrators (Section 3101, p. 1925)
109. Program for treatment of domestic violence and sexual abuse (Section 3101, p. 1927)
110. Native American Health and Wellness Foundation (Section 3103, p. 1966)
111. Committee for the Native American Health and Wellness Foundation (Section 3103, p. 1968)

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