Word: reforms
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Congressman Chris Shays (R-Conn.), chairman of the House Government Reform national security subcommittee, has a problem with the part about "known." He calls the vaccine primitive and untested and dubbed the mandatory vaccination program "a gigantic mistake," and his panel has called for the Pentagon to make the shots optional until a better version comes along. But Shays doesn't have anywhere near the votes needed to get the shots stopped. Ask folks around here about Congress riding to my rescue, and they shake their heads and smile...
Bush has called himself "a reformer with results," and Gore declared this week that campaign finance reform would be a central theme of his campaign...
...Plea for Genuine Reform...
...campaign contributions on politics [Big Money & Politics, Feb. 7]. It is shameful that lawmakers and Administration officials are so desperate for cash that they will work tirelessly to bail out a single wealthy donor at the expense of small-business owners. What we need is genuine campaign-finance reform, so that lawmakers can no longer be encouraged to give their votes to the highest bidders. We need to ban soft money, allow for public financing of elections and provide free TV time. Until we do, average Americans will inevitably lose, as you so eloquently demonstrated. JOAN CLAYBROOK, PRESIDENT Public Citizen...
COMPLETED. DORIS ("GRANNY D") HADDOCK, 90, arthritic New Hampshire activist who walked 3,200 miles across the U.S. to highlight congressional foot dragging over campaign-finance reform. Haddock, who covered 10 miles a day for 14 months, wore a steel back brace and a vest emblazoned with GRANNYD.COM, which has a reform petition and a list of "Granny's Dirty 30" corporations undermining American democracy...