Scholastic Update articles from November 1993

Scholastic Update archives from November 1993

A new day in Washington? (new members of Congress may change problems of the system) (Cover Story)
November 5, 1993... When new members of Congress arrived on Capitol Hill early this year, Congress watchers did a double take. Taking a seat in the formerly all-white U.S. Senate was Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman ever elected to the Senate....

Deciding the issues. (controversial decisions to be made in Congress) (Cover Story)
November 5, 1993... This fall, Congress will debate some of the country's most important issues. Months of heated argument lie ahead. The following four issues are among the most pressing Congress will face. Will they result in new laws? Stay tuned to the news for...

How a bill becomes a law. (federal legislation process) (Illustration)
November 5, 1993... As an old saying in Washington goes, there are two things in this world you don't want to watch getting made: sausage and legislation. Both can turn your stomach. The reason is that passing a bill, or proposed law, through Congress usually...

The power brokers. (influential Congress members)(includes related article)
November 5, 1993... Meet seven key leaders who make Congress click, and a group of rising stars who are putting their stamp on the institution. Rep. Tom Foley AGE: 64 HOME STATE: Washington ELECTED: 1964 PROFILE: As Speaker of the House, Foley is...

Money talks. (lobbying in Congress) (Cover Story)
November 5, 1993... For years, a handful of wealthy cattle ranchers, logging companies, and mining companies have taken the spoils of federal lands and paid very little for them. Their actions, critics say, have damaged the environment and cost taxpayers billions....

The Ross Perot show. (his fight to reform Congress)
November 5, 1993... No person in the U.S. has done more to rouse public anger against Congress than Texas billionaire businessman H. Ross Perot. Last year, Perot won 19 percent of the vote as an independent Presidential candidate, running on a platform called...

Out with the old. (term limits in Congress)
November 5, 1993... Voters are fed up with lifelong politicians and want to limit their years of service. But will so-called term-limit laws really work, or will they backfire? Nineteen ninety-two was called the year of the angry voter. Congress had been...

The capitol runaround. (a day in the life of Representative Sherrod Brown)
November 5, 1993... It's 7:15 a.m. on a recent Wednesday morning, and Representative Sherrod Brown has just emerged from his office. As one of 535 members in the world's most powerful legislative body, Brown's attire is somewhat unexpected: shorts, T-shirt, and...

Congress tunes in. (political talk radio shows)
November 5, 1993... Across the country, radio talk shows are filling the airwaves with politics, giving voice to angry voters and giving Congress an earful. Do these shows have the power to reshape our democracy? In 1989, the members of Congress wanted to give...

The golden door. (anti-immigrant feelings in the United States)(includes related article) (Cover Story)
November 19, 1993... To the people of the world, nothing so symbolizes the ideals of this nation as the promise held out by Emma Lazarus's poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty. Throughout U.S. history, immigrants have made their way here from distant...

An immigrant's story. (life of a teenage girl from Colombia in the United States)
November 19, 1993... For a 17-year-old immigrant from Colombia, life in America can be tough. But having a shot at the American Dream makes it worth the struggle. Cristi Hernandez has the usual array of high school headaches. She's worried about her hair and...

Crisis in California. (illegal immigration's effect on the economy)
November 19, 1993... Driving around the Southern California city of Santa Ana, Ron Heike, a corporate sales manager, gets angry. When he moved to the city two decades ago, he had found a suburban, middle-class neighborhood of his dreams. But not those days are...

A hard road to travel. (life as a young immigrant in the United States)
November 19, 1993... Listen to an immigrant's tale, and two themes keep returning: hardship and dreams. On these two pages, four young people from different backgrounds, who all wound up in California, tell what it's like to lay down new roots in a land far from...

The labor debate. (effect of illegal aliens on the economy)
November 19, 1993... Do illegal immigrants damage the U.S. economy and strain America's social services? Or do they help our nation's economy by filling jobs that no one else wants? Every morning at dawn, groups of Mexican men gather on street corners in Los...

Coming to America. (history of immigration to the United States)
November 19, 1993... For more than 300 years, immigrants from every corner of the globe have settled in America, creating the most diverse nation on earth. Though immigrants have given much to the country, their passage here was never easy, nor their welcome always...

Borderline calls. (controversial immigration issues)
November 19, 1993... The debate over immigration stretches all the way from the nation's capital to the nation's classrooms. Here, UPDATE prents three issues of public debate over who gets in, and how they should be treated when they're here. Which side do yuou...