Word: record
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...IMPACT: More children would be insured through the CHIP program, but only if states improve their record of implementing the plan. The prescription benefit would reach all seniors, but nothing is done to reform Medicare and trim its long-term costs, which could eventually bankrupt the program. SOCIAL SECURITY GEORGE W. BUSH AL GORE...
...give a direct answer to a direct question. Mistake. After one of the early debates, I was talking to a scrum of reporters and was asked about a certain line of attack by our rivals. "It's stupid," I said. And then quickly added, "That's off the record." Suddenly, the pack was shouting, "Hey, you know the rules; it's too late!" I did, and it was. Here are a handful of other rules that I learned - or was rudely reminded...
...Nationally, every major attempt to clean up campaign funding has been blocked for more than two decades. Meanwhile, George W. Bush, Al Gore and their political parties have hauled in a record $800 million and counting. But this is flinty Maine, which enacted the nation's first drug-price-control law, and gave Ross Perot his best showings...
...with sitcoms, there are really only a few basic plots for negative ads, and they are made over and over. This year the Republican Leadership Council rebroadcast the scathing attacks of Ralph Nader - no Bush lover - on Gore's environmental record; in 1980 the Reagan campaign aired the anti-Jimmy Carter fulminations of Ted Kennedy, friend to supply-siders everywhere. Bob Dole lifted a clip from the "Daisy" ad for a 1996 attack spot against Clinton. The Gore camp bashed Bush for pollution in Houston (substitute "Bush," "Dukakis" and "Boston Harbor," and you've got 1988) and tagged Bush...
...pillars of Bush's campaign: that he is trustworthy and that Gore, like Bill Clinton, is not. On issues ranging from taxes to Social Security, Bush has asserted, "I trust the people." Yet he did not trust them to understand and put in context this blot on his record...