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Freedom Files - Season 2
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Free Speech : General : Legislative Documents

Letter to the Senate on the Kennedy Hate Crimes Amendment to the DOD Authorization Bill (06/15/2000)

Letter to the Senate Urging Opposition to the McCain Amendment No. 3214 (06/08/2000)

Letter to Attorney General Janet Reno on Unlawful Conduct On the Internet (03/08/2000)

Letter to Reps. Young and Miller on the Subpoena of the Phone Records of the Project on Government Oversight (03/07/2000)

Letter to the Senate Regarding the Hatch Drug Amendment to S. 625, the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999" (01/31/2000)

Letter to the FEC on the Federal Election Campaign Act to the Internet (01/06/2000)

Statement of Legislative Counsel Christopher Anders on Hate Crimes Legislation Before the House Committee on the Judiciary (08/04/1999)

Memo in Opposition of H.R. 2184, the Terrorism Bill (06/16/1999)

Testimony of Legislative Counsel Christopher Anders on S. 622, the "Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999" Before the Senate Judiciary Committee (05/11/1999)

Letter to Reps. Hyde and Conyers on the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999 (03/16/1999)

Memo in Opposition of S. 254, the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act of 1999 (03/10/1999)

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