Public affairs radio programs

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Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on May 28, 1963. Sen. Dominick discusses topics including growth of the Federal government and executive branch power, the importance of checks and balances in the American system of government, and the essential role of the Congress in reviewing proposals for government spending.

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Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on July 2, 1963. Sen. Dominick discusses capitalism, illustrating the benefits of a free enterprise economic system by comparing the price of electricity provided by private companies in the United States to the price of electricity provided by state run companies in various countries in Europe.

Abstract Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on Mar. 19, 1965. Sen. Dominick discusses a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's One man; one vote principle applied to state legislative districting generally in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, and in the companion case applying it particularly to Colorado, Lucas v. Colorado Gen. Assembly, 377 U.S. 713. Under the proposal, each state with a bicameral...

Abstract Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on June 5, 1965. Sen. Dominick talks in depth about the Public Works and Economic Development Act. He reviews numerous provisions of the act and the reasons he opposed its passage in the Senate including its high costs, its lack of program reviews and oversight, and its provision of subsidized loans. He also discusses his view that the act repackages and expands two failed programs, the Area...

Abstract Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on Aug. 11, 1965. Sen. Dominick discusses topics including the Congress constitutional role in authorizing, appropriating and coining money, the removal of silver from coinage, the federal price controls leading to the shortage of silver, the shortage of circulating coins, and the standards for metal content of U.S. coinage. He reports that he has been appointed to the Joint Commission on the...

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Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on August 20, 1964. He answers questions about the status of legislation authorizing the Savory Pothook, Bostwick Park, and Fruitland Mesa water storage projects on the Western Slope of Colorado as well as whether the crops irrigated by these projects would be cash crops or surplus crops eligible for government subsidies.

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Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on May 13, 1965. Sen. Dominick discusses topics including bipartisan U.S. opposition to the recognition or admission of the communist government of China to the United Nations, and opposition to its worldwide subversive activities.

Abstract Senator Peter H. Dominick delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on May 21, 1964. Sen. Dominick discusses the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the establishment of the Warren Commission, headed by United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. He also voices his concerns about the report of the commission being withheld from the public in the name of national security as well as the participation of Professor Norman Redlich, an alleged communist...

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Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on August 27, 1963. Saying that Congress must find ways to cut federal spending to deal with a budget deficit, Sen. Dominick discusses whether scientific research projects that don't offer an objective benefit to a large number of taxpayers should be subsidized by the government or whether they should be funded by private individuals and organizations.

Abstract Senator Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.) delivers his weekly radio address, Report from Washington, on March 18, 1966. Sen. Dominick discusses the impact of inflation on consumer prices, especially the rising cost of higher education. He announces the defeat of a plan that he co-sponsored with Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), the Ribicoff-Dominick Tuition Tax Credit Proposal. Dominick says this proposal would have established tax credits for individuals as well as provided incentives for...