Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sultry Monday afternoon after a morning in which he was up before dawn to appear on seemingly every network morning show. He followed that with a lengthy chat with the reporters on the boat, headlined a rally in Quincy, Ill., conducted an onboard town hall meeting about tax reform, and I think sometime in there made and packed some very nice fried-chicken box lunches for a hungry press corps...
EDUCATION This year he pushed a major reform that combined most of Gore's spending proposals with stronger accountability measures. He has supported some voucher plans, saying they offer "hope to a whole new group of low-income kids...
CAMPAIGN FINANCE He says he brings "the passion that comes from personal experience" to the battle for reform, promising that the first bill he will sign into law will be a ban on soft money. He wants to create a "Democracy Endowment" to help pay the costs of campaigns...
CAMPAIGN FINANCE He slammed Clinton and Gore for their White House coffees and "the fund-raising madness of the 1996 election." Both parties, he said, "hung a giant FOR SALE sign on our government." Some Democrats who agreed with his support for reform wished he weren't so blunt...
...Campaign finance reform is my favorite issue. If this former solicitor-in-chief can somehow convince me of his sincerity, that will go a long way. (Certainly there is no competition from Bush to be the president who gets McCain-Feingold through the McConnell roadblock.) Likewise the environment, where Gore's sincerity is unquestioned but his ability to effect real change is questionable. The corporation-bashing is a turn-off -this economy wouldn't have boomed much without big business - but then again, corporations are quite able to take care of themselves...