Word: reforms
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...information about its customers' finances to telemarketers, and won't release any information at all without written consent. It wasn't an entirely selfless move - New York attorney general Elliot Spitzer, who accused Chase of violating the self-imposed contract terms of its new accounts, nudged the bank into reform...
...tall, balding, politically moderate, Ivy-educated white men. The two had essentially identical voting records in their time in the Senate together, and their positions on the vast majority of issues are indistinguishable. Both support abortion rights; both are environmentalists; both support free trade. Both support campaign finance reform and gun control. And, in line with the post-Bill Clinton orthodoxy of the "new" Democratic Party, both support the death penalty and oppose gay marriage...
...voters, Bradley is best known for his outspokenness on campaign finance reform. Certainly, this is refreshing, particularly in an era where political campaigns can be dominated by unlimited inflows of "soft money"--about $250 million in 1996. Bradley would ban soft money to national parties and prohibit state party committees from spending their soft money to influence federal elections. Additionally, Bradley has vowed to increase taxpayer financing of elections and require all broadcasters to give candidates free time. Such moves would help to make federal elections more about ideas and less about money, reinvigorating our currently impoverished level political discourse...
...there is any way to insure that future presidential elections will offer the American people greater hope for their future, it is through serious campaign finance reform. We hope that a victory for Bradley and McCain will keep this issue in the spotlight...
After his boss tried to reform health care in 1993, Gore learned the lesson that an expensive, ill-defined plan is less appealing than a practical, targeted one. Gore's sensible proposal for health insurance would focus on covering children and working families, two groups with the greatest need for immediate action. Bradley wants to take another crack at universal health coverage, a laudable principle without a prayer of passing Congress. He counts on market forces to make up the difference for the poor while scrapping the safety net of Medicaid. Gore's cheaper, more incremental approach makes political sense...