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	Right Web \| Organizations \| Empower America
		Empower America, founded in 1993, is one of a string of advocacy organizations headed by Reagan education secretary and national moral compass William Bennett.
		Uniquely positioned in Washington, Empower America bridges the gap between the array of think tanks that produce white papers on the public-policy debate and the actual enactment of policy.
		According to Mediatransparency's James D'Entremont, "While Empower America bills itself as a 'nonpartisan, nonprofit organization,' its board of directors is a blue-ribbon panel of right-wing pro-corporate Republicans, and the organization itself is a kind of stepchild of the Heritage Foundation.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /org/empower.php (528 words)

	Pepperdine University - School of Public Policy - Jack F. Kemp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Jack Kemp is a co-director of Empower America, a public policy and advocacy organization he co-founded in 1993 with Dr. William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.
		Empower America is dedicated to three founding principles: Expanding freedom and democratic capitalism; promoting policies to expand economic growth and entrepeneurship for our nation; and advocating social policies that empower people, not government bureaucracies.
		Prior to founding Empower America, Kemp served for four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and proved to be one of our nation's most innovative leaders in that role.
	publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu /academics/faculty/kemp (361 words)

	Jeane Kirkpatrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Along with Empower America co-directors William Bennett and Jack Kemp, she called on the Congress to issue a formal declaration of war against the "entire fundamentalist Islamic terrorist network" the day after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center.
		Jeane Kirkpatrick, born Jeane Duane Jordan in Duncan, Oklahoma, graduated from Barnard College in 1948, and received a doctorate in political science from Columbia University in 1968.
		In 1993 she co-founded Empower America, a public-policy organization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick (952 words)

	Young America's Foundation Speaker Jack Kemp, co-director of Empower America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		is a co-director of Empower America, a public policy and advocacy organization he co-founded in 1993 with William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.
		Empower America is dedicated to three founding principles: expanding freedom and democratic capitalism; promoting policies to expand economic growth and entrepreneurship for our nation; and advancing social policies that empower people, not government bureaucracies.
		He was the first and strongest advocate of Enterprise Zones to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation in urban America, and of expanding home ownership among the poor through resident management and ownership of public housing.
	www.yaf.org /speakers/jack_kemp.html (315 words)

	Empower America - SourceWatch
		Tex Lezar was chairman of Empower America in 1996-97.
		Empower America appears to have been operationally connected to the Claremont Institute.
		Although it is based in California, and Empower America was based in Washington, a November 4th 2003 press release from the Claremont Institute directs press inquiries to Seth Leibsohn at Empower America's Washington telephone number [3] (http://www.claremont.org/events/031104bennett.html).
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Empower_America (613 words)

	About Toyota: Diversity -- Diversity Board -- Jack Kemp
		Jack Kemp is co-director of Empower America, a public policy and advocacy organization he co-founded in 1993 with William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.
		Empower America is dedicated to three founding principles: expanding freedom and democratic capitalism here and abroad; promoting policies to expand economic growth and entrepreneurship for our nation and our urban areas; and advancing social policies of reform that empower people, not government bureaucracies.
		He was the author of the Enterprise Zones legislation to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation in urban America and continues to advocate the expansion of home ownership among the poor through resident management and ownership of public and subsidized housing.
	www.toyota.com /about/diversity/board/kemp.html (438 words)

	Hey Bill Bennett! You Are The Outrage! - BuzzFlash presents Southern Style
		The mission statement of Empower America states that it is a unique combination of public policy and political advocacy.
		One of the main functions of Empower America is access to the media and the highest levels of government to air its conservative message.
		Co-directors of Empower America are Dr. Bennett, Jack Kemp, Jean Kirkpatrick, Vin Webber, and William Cohen.
	www.buzzflash.com /southern/03/05/13.html (2121 words)

	Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		New Haven, CT -- Jack Kemp, co-director of Empower America and 1996 Republican nominee for vice president of the United States, will speak at Yale University on Tuesday, April 15, as a Chubb Fellow.
		Empower America is a public policy and advocacy organization established in 1993 by Mr.
		It is dedicated to expanding freedom and democratic capitalism, promoting policies that encourage economic growth and entrepreneurship, and advancing social policies that empower individuals rather than government entities.
	www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/97-04-02-01.all.html (345 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Release : Empower America Welcomes Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as Keynote Speaker for 10th ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Empower America is honored to announce that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will address Empower America's Tenth Anniversary Dinner Thursday night, Oct. 30, at the United States Chamber of Commerce, 1615 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Secretary Rumsfeld will address the organization in the International Hall of Flags.
		President and CEO of Empower America James R. (JT) Taylor said, "Secretary Rumsfeld has been a central part of the Bush Administration and a major force in the war against terrorism.
		During that time, Rumsfeld was crucial to establishing Empower America as one of the foremost public policy groups in Washington, D.C. Empower America is devoted to ensuring that government actions foster growth, economic well-being, freedom and individual responsibility.
	releases.usnewswire.com /printing.asp?id=22661 (321 words)

	THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Prior to Empower America, he was managing editor of the publication, ``The Public Interest'' and was also an aide to Senator Sam Nunn as well as short stint with Congressional Quarterly.
		Empower America believes that the Federal Government's role should be limited, focused and vigorous, not scatter-shot.
		These questions in Empower America's view are inevitable and the stuff of which free enterprise and healthy limited Government are made.
	commdocs.house.gov /committees/edu/hedcew6-94.000/hedcew6-94.htm (10331 words)

	The Sting Online
		Currently Dr. Bennett is Co-Director of Empower America, a Washington-based organization whose mission is to ensure that government actions foster growth, economic well-being, freedom and individual responsibility.
		A project of Empower America’s education and research arm, Empower.org, AVOT’s goals are aimed at addressing present terrorist threats and the ideologies surrounding them.
		Bennett is a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and co-director of Empower America.
	www.thesting.org /display_article.asp?id=333 (354 words)

	Testimony of Jason Bertsch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Empower America has two basic recommendations that, in our view, will make Title III more efficient and more effective (more thorough documents outlining and explaining these recommendations are attached):
		Empower America believes that the federal government’s role should be limited and vigorous.
		These questions, in Empower America’s view, are inevitable – and the stuff of which free enterprise and healthy, limited government are made.
	www.house.gov /ed_workforce/hearings/106th/ecyf/edtech3800/bertsch.htm (2855 words)

	Washington Bulletin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		A spokesman for the organization points out that while it is conservative, its members have never agreed on everything; Kemp and Bennett have debated the causes of and solutions to poverty, and Kemp and Kirkpatrick have increasingly diverged on foreign policy.
		The spokesman also mentions that Empower America will not be Cohen's home base, and that he will be doing a lot of work on technology issues on which he is a conservative.
		Empower America, on the other hand, might want to keep an eye on those expense-account forms.
	www.nationalreview.com /daily/nrprint012901.html (325 words)

	Online NewsHour: Biography of Jack Kemp
		Many commentators said that his withdrawal was a huge loss for the Party and for the country, but that his influence would continue as a key spokesman for growth and opportunity, and ownership an reconciliation in America.
		Kemp currently serves on the Board of Directors of Empower America, a public policy and advocacy organization he co-founded in 1993 with William Bennet, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Vin Weber.
		Empower America is dedicated to three founding principles: expanding freedom and democratic capitalism around the world; promoting policies to expand economic growth, job creation, and entrepreneurship for our nation; and advancing social policies which empower people, not government bureaucracies.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/bio/kemp_bio.html (418 words)

	PUERTO RICO REPORT: Conservative Tax Plan: Sec. 936 Tax Credit An Economic Failure… ABC-TV To Puerto Rico: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The proposal was made by Empower America, a policy action institute headed by two of the most respected and leading conservative Republican voices in the country: Jack Kemp and William Bennett.
		Co-Directors of Empower America with Kemp and Bennett are: William Cohen, Secretary of Defense under President Clinton and a Republican senator before that; Jeane Kirkpatrick, President Reagan’s Ambassador to the United Nations; and Vin Weber, a former Republican House member and now a top lobbyist in Washington.
		It also notes that the Empowerment Zones concept was a mid-‘90s expansion of Enterprise Zones, which were originally proposed by Kemp while a member of Congress.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n12/WashUpdate0712-en.shtml (1892 words)

	Empower America
		In 2004 Empower America merged with Citizens for a Sound Economy to form a new organization named FreedomWorks.
		From its mission statement, Empower America describes itself as "...a unique combination of public policy institute and political advocacy organization." Empower America claims a membership of thousands of grassroots activists, but one of its main functions is to give its co-directors access to the news media, talk shows and the highest levels of government.
		While Empower America bills itself as a "nonpartisan, nonprofit organization," its board of directors is a blue-ribbon panel of right-wing pro-corporate Republicans, and the organization itself is a kind of stepchild of the Heritage Foundation.
	www.mediatransparency.org /recipientprofile.php?recipientID=523 (337 words)

	Issue Ads 97-98: Empower America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		It was founded in 1993 by William Bennett, former drug czar and Secretary of Education; Jack Kemp, former congressman, Housing and Urban Development Secretary and Republican vice-presidential nominee; Lamar Alexander, former Tennessee Governor and Republican presidential candidate; Jeane Kirkpatrick, former member of Ronald Reagan's National Security Council; and former congressman Vin Weber.
		Empower America is run by former Washington Times managing editor Josette Shiner.
		In July 1998, Empower America aired a radio advertisement in support of the "American Missile Protection Act," calling for the development of an anti-missile defense system.
	www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org /issueads/profiles/empower_america.htm (308 words)

	Quantifying America's Decline
		The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, a compilation of the Heritage Foundation and Empower America, attempts to bring a similar kind of data-based analysis to cultural issues.
		Perhaps more than anything else, America's cultural decline is evidence of a shift in the he public's attitudes and beliefs.
		He is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and codirector of Empower America.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/civilization/cc0042.html (881 words)

	Salem Radio Network -- Programming That Delivers
		William J. Bennett is one of America's most important, influential and respected voices on cultural, political, and education issues.
		He is a co-director of Empower America, Chairman and co-founder of the education company K12, Inc. and the Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute.
		He is also the chairman of Americans for Victory over Terrorism, a project dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public opinion as the war on terrorism moves forward.
	www.srnonline.com /talk/talk-bennett.shtml (498 words)

	The Empower Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Empower Program is a national, nonprofit educational organization founded in 1992 and based in Washington, DC.
		We empower young people and adults to create safe schools and communities by providing effective prevention strategies to address bullying and other forms of peer aggression.
		The Empower Program is one of America's leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to ending bullying, harassment and victimization among youth.
	www.empowered.org (624 words)

	News -- Ex-VP Candidate Kemp Urges Bipartisanship
		The Edmund Burke society held a dinner in honor of former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), and his efforts for Empower America, a public policy organization, at the Ritz-Carlton on Tuesday night.
		In addition to his work as the head of Empower America, former Secretary of Urban Housing and Development and former U.S. Representative from New York State, Kemp has exhibited bi-partisan involvement as Chairman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies while serving in the Senate.
		This event was sponsored by the Edmund Burke Society, Empower America and the Dutko Group, a lobbying firm.
	www.thehoya.com /news/031904/news17.cfm (698 words)

	Press Release - Sideware Corporation
		Joining the board are Jack Kemp, a founder and co-director of Empower America and John Shoemaker, an executive vice president at Sun Microsystems, Inc. The appointments have been approved by the company’s board and are effective immediately.
		In 1993, Jack Kemp co-founded Empower America, an organization devoted to ensuring that government actions foster growth, economic well-being, freedom and individual responsibility.
		Prior to founding Empower America, Kemp served for four years as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
	www.realmarket.com /news/sideware021501.html (627 words)

	American Values Research Topic History Summary
		america · crime · fear · bill clinton · american ideals · moral decline · outrage · moral crisis · deviant behavior · empower america · shining city · social pathologies · political journals
		In the following viewpoint, excerpted from a speech delivered to the Heritage Foundation, William J. Bennett argues that America is experiencing a serious crisis of morals, as evidenced by rising rates of violent crime, illegitimacy, divorce, and teen suicide, and declining standards of education.
		He is the codirector of the organization Empower America, and the author of a number of books about morality, including The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals, The Book of Virtues, and The De-Valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children.
	www.bookrags.com /researchtopics/american-values/sub10.html (390 words)

	GMAC Mortgage Introduces Move In America to Empower a New Generation of Homebuyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Move In America is the first of several programs from GMAC Mortgage that will provide products, services and guidance tailored to meet the needs of homebuyers in various stages of their lives.
		Move In America seeks to empower a new generation of homeowners by providing them with the knowledge and tools they need to understand the home financing process and to better manage the investment in their homes.
		The Move In America program is a comprehensive suite of products and services specifically geared toward first-time homebuyers or buyers in their 20s and early 30s.
	www.forrelease.com /D20040407/dew011.P1.04062004185058.20010.html (396 words)

	2001—Empower American Transcripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		I serve as chairman of Empower America and I’d like, together with the Pacific Research Institute, to welcome you to Santa Clara to this education summit, “Seeing the Future: How the Private Sector and High Technology can Improve Education.” It could probably also improve technology.
		Your presence, we think, is a testament to the importance of the subject that we’re embarking upon and as you know, even from last night’s State of the Union message, there’s a new day of real interest in the education field and we hope to explore many of those ideas today.
		EMPOWER.org, the sister organization of Empower America, was founded a year ago—it’s the education and research arm of Empower America, and through conferences like this, seminars, Internet publications and other means, we’re trying to look for innovative, free-market solutions to many economic, educational, and social issues.
	www.pacificresearch.org /pub/sab/educat/emam_transcripts/emam_panel1.html (11870 words)

	Chief Executive (U.S.): Globalization and its discontents.(Empower Amer... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Chief Executive (U.S.); 1/1/1999; Donlon, J.P. Social critic, author, Heritage Foundation fellow, Empower America co-director and ex-public officer William J. Bennett opined that free markets alone are not an adequate foundation for civilization during an annual Andersen Consulting forum held in New York, NY.
		Free markets may have triumphed around the world, the backsliding in Asia notwithstanding, but cultural norms - the values that hold society together as a unit - are widely believed to be trashed.
		William J. Bennett, co-director of Empower America and a distinguished fellow of Cultural Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, does not.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:54237753&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (2853 words)

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