Campaign-finance reform: Still alive?
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- Reform will return. // Christian Science Monitor;4/2/98, Vol. 90 Issue 88, p20
Expresses frustration with the leaders of the United States Congress for their efforts to reform campaign finances. The limited reform package passed by the House; Why the majority party seems to view reform as unnecessary; The lack of legislation dealing with soft money contributions; Why real...
- Tapped-Out Donors: Please Give Us a Break! // National Journal;7/17/99, Vol. 31 Issue 29, p2055
Reports on the appeal from the Committee for Economic Development to the United States House of Representatives regarding campaign finance laws. Comments from House reform advocate Christopher H. Shays (R-Conn.); Preparations of presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.) for his campaign...
- One more try at fund-raising reform. Goodrich, Lawrence J. // Christian Science Monitor;2/18/98, Vol. 90 Issue 57, p4
Discusses the outlook for reform of the campaign financing laws in the United States in 1998. The lack of agreement on the necessity of changing the laws; Partisan divisions; Bills in Congress which would ban soft money, limit advertising by advocacy groups and require disclosure of...
- Campaign reform now. // Christian Science Monitor;6/2/98, Vol. 90 Issue 130, p12
Editorial. Expresses the hope that the United States House of Representatives will support the campaign finance reform bill proposed by Republican Christopher Shays and Democrat Marty Meehan, which would ban all soft money contributions. Why it is unlikely to pass; The Supreme Court's...
- Hooray for the House. // Christian Science Monitor;8/10/98, Vol. 90 Issue 179, p12
Lauds the efforts of members of the United States House of Representatives to pass campaign finance reform legislation in 1998. Why soft-money donations should be illegal; The likelihood that the US Senate will take up campaign finance reform legislation; The fairness of the Shays-Meehan bill...
- PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS. Graham, Jill; Mitchell, Charlie // National Journal;4/07/2001, Vol. 33 Issue 14, p1034
Discusses several developments in the United States Congress for the week of April 2-5, 2001. Approval of the campaign finance reform legislation sponsored by Senators John McCain and Russell Feingold in the Senate; Amendment to decrease the amount of the proposed tax cut of President George W....
- Rough Seas for McCain. Turque, Bill // Newsweek;03/26/2001, Vol. 137 Issue 13, p35
Discusses the efforts of United States Senator John McCain to gain support for his campaign finance reform bill. How the bill would eliminate unregulated soft money contributions to political parties; Alternative versions for campaign finance, including a bill sponsored by Senator Chuck Hagel;...
- THE NEW SLUSH FUND SCANDAL. Hogan, Bill; Kiesel, Diane; Green, Alan // New Republic;8/30/82, Vol. 187 Issue 9, p21
Focuses on the investigation of campaign spending practices in the U.S. House of Representatives. Efforts of the House incumbents to turn their campaign treasuries into personal expense accounts, or use them to pay expenses they are either unable or unwilling to bill to the House of...
- Reform could strike out over labor. Carney, Eliza Newlin // National Journal;11/30/96, Vol. 28 Issue 48, p2617
Talks about the prospects for a bipartisan agreement on campaign finance reform legislation in the US Congress. Effect of the bias of the system to incumbents; Reaction of the rank-and-file members on the spending of union dues on uncovered causes; Conflict of interest between the House...
