Zell Miller, Newt Gingrich, Daniel Hannan (MEP), Dr. Art Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Herman Cain to Speak in Atlanta at ALEC's Annual Meeting

/PRNewswire / -- Former U.S. Senator and Georgia Governor Zell Miller will join Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and others in addressing an audience of nearly 1,500 state legislators and business leaders at the American Legislative Exchange Council's 36th Annual Meeting, held July 15 to 18 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.

"The annual Meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council provides a unique opportunity for legislators from all 50 states to come together to discuss policy solutions collectively along with public-policy experts and the private sector," said Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Bill Howell, ALEC's 2009 National Chairman. "ALEC's process of producing principled model legislation is unparalleled among its type," he added.

Other notable speakers will include: Dr. Art Laffer and Stephen Moore, co-authors of ALEC's Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index; syndicated radio host Herman Cain; and Daniel Hannan (MEP).

Featured workshops will include:
-- Medical Innovation
-- Higher Education
-- Energy and Economic Recovery
-- Virtual Learning
-- Transparency in the States
-- E-Discovery
-- The Politics of Climate Change
-- Saving America's Election System


Most of the business conducted at ALEC occurs in one of its nine Task Forces which include; Health and Human Services; Natural Resources; Education; Tax and Fiscal Policy; Public Safety and Elections; Civil Justice; Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development; Telecommunications and Information Technology; and International Relations. These Task Forces have considered, written, and approved hundreds of model bills, offering real policy solutions for states on a wide range of issues. Each year, state legislatures consider close to 1,000 bills that are based, at least in part, on ALEC Model Legislation. Hundreds of these bills are enacted every year.

A full agenda with speaking times and locations is available at www.alec.org .

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Gingrich Calls on Obama to End Bailouts

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich today called on the Obama administration to abandon the strategy of bailing out failing companies, and instead insist that companies choose bankruptcy or receivership as the only way to restore a sense of order and fairness to the economic system.

This includes AIG, who recent reports suggest is going to need another bailout even while rewarding its executives $165 million in bonuses.

In his weekly newsletter for HumanEvents.com, The Newt Gingrich Letter, Gingrich writes about the outrage over the bonuses being paid to AIG executives:

"The cure for our outrage is not merely, as President Obama is demanding, that AIG be prevented from paying its executives... Nor is it acceptable to ask Americans to keep throwing their tax dollars at failed companies and their leaders.

The answer is an old fashioned one: AIG should choose between receivership or bankruptcy. It should not be allowed to choose more bailouts from the taxpayer."

Gingrich continues:

"Thanks to the Bush-Obama-Geithner policy of bailing out failing companies, we now have the worst of all possible scenarios: A taxpayer subsidized, government supervised private company; an unsustainable public/private hybrid that is too public to make its own decisions and too private to be responsible to the taxpayers that are keeping it alive.

"Outrages like the fat cat bonuses currently dominating the headlines will only continue as long as the rule of politicians supplants the rule of law on Wall Street.

"Bankruptcy would replace the rule of politicians over U.S. financial institutions with the rule of law."

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Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, Newt Gingrich, Amity Shlaes, U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin (OK), U.S. Rep. Tom Price (GA), and Others to Speak

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, Newt Gingrich, Amity Shlaes, U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin (OK), U.S. Rep. Tom Price (GA), and Others to Speak at National Gathering of State Legislators in Washington, D.C.

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) annual States & Nation Policy Summit will be held in Washington, D.C. at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road, NW, from December 4-6, 2008. State legislators from across the United States will gather for three days of intensive discussions on the critical issues facing the states and nation, share their knowledge and experiences with each other, and hear from national leaders and renowned policy experts who share their commitment to common sense, conservative policy.

"ALEC members participate in substantive public policy sessions throughout these meetings and legislators return to their state capitols better prepared to serve their constituents," said Arkansas State Senator Steve Faris, ALEC's 2008 National Chairman.

ALEC conferences are renowned for developing cutting edge legislative policy and garnering top policy speakers. This year's speakers include: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, who will speak on state budget issues; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, who will provide election analysis; syndicated columnist Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression; U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin (OK), who will speak regarding federalism issues; and U.S. Rep. Tom Price (GA), the only medical doctor currently in the House of Representatives will speak on health care reform issues.

December 4 - 6, 2008
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road, NW
Washington, D.C.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the nation's largest nonpartisan, individual membership organization of state legislators, with over 2,000 legislator members from all fifty states, and 85 former members serving in the U.S. Congress. www.alec.org .

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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to Teach at the UGA School of Law

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will be joining the University of Georgia School of Law as a Carl E. Sanders Political Leadership Scholar this spring. He will be teaching a course on judicial review.

"We are greatly honored and excited to have Newt Gingrich leading a course next semester," Georgia Law Dean Rebecca H. White said. "We strive to offer our students a variety of learning opportunities, and I am confident that studying under the former speaker will help them better understand the interplay of law, politics and policy."

A frequent lecturer and author on government ethics and politics, J. Randolph "Randy" Evans will assist Gingrich with teaching the class in the spring.

The Sanders Political Leadership Scholar position is named for Georgia's 74th Governor and Georgia Law alumnus, Carl E. Sanders. It was created so law students could learn from individuals who have distinguished themselves as leaders in politics or other forms of public service.

Gingrich was first elected to Congress in 1978, where he served the 6th District of Georgia for 20 years. He served as speaker of the U.S. House from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, he was named TIME magazine’s "Man of the Year."

Today, Gingrich is still involved in shaping public policy. He is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is a member of the Terrorism Task Force for the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. Commission on National Security and the Defense Policy Board, and he is an advisory board member of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a member of the Defense Policy Board. Gingrich is also an editorial board member of the journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism and a contributor to FOX News Channel.

He is the author of more than 15 books, including his newest release Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less and the New York Times bestseller Real Change: From the World that Fails to the World that Works. Additionally, he writes a weekly newsletter for Human Events. Gingrich is chairman of the Gingrich Group, founder of the Center for Health Transformation and general chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future.

A 1983 graduate of Georgia Law, Evans is a partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge. He served as counsel to the speakers of the 104th-109th Congresses of the United States. He has also participated and supervised matters on behalf of the Office of the Speaker involving separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

Previous Sanders Political Leadership Scholars who have taught a course at the law school include: former U.S. Sen. Wyche Fowler Jr., prominent media personality and political consultant Paul E. Begala, former Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox, former U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary Theodore "Ted" W. Kassinger, former U.S. Sen. J. Maxwell "Max" Cleland and former Georgia Supreme Court Justice George T. Smith.

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Newt Gingrich to Host Second Annual Solutions Day on September 27 at the Cobb Galleria Centre

A bi-partisan national forum, led by Former Speaker New Gingrich, American Solutions General Chairman, on real change and real solutions for the Economy, Energy, Education, and Health is scheduled for Saturday, September 27 at the Cobb Galleria Centre.

Also scheduled to appear in the forum are:

Former Atlanta Hawks Legend Dominique Wilkins, Fellow of the Center for Health Transformation (CHT) Diabetes Project
Former Governor Roy Romer, Chairman of ED in '08
Michael Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner
Peter Groff, President of Colorado State Senate
Former Arizona School Superintendent Lisa Keegan
Pollster Kellyanne Conway

Appearing via video:
Former Vice Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro, Fellow of CHT
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., CHT
TV Host and Columnist Larry Kudlow
Pollster Doug Schoen

More than 100,000 people in all 50 states participated in the inaugural Solutions Day last year.

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