Common Cause Magazine articles from December 1995

Common Cause Magazine archives from December 1995

Buchanan on the campaign dole.(Federal Election Commission says Patrick Buchanan owes it $379,470 from the 1992 campaign)(No Sacred Cows)
December 22, 1995... While Pat Buchanan stomps through the country raising money in his bid for the '96 GOP presidential nomination, his '92 primary campaign lingers on, quite alive and well. That's right: 1992. Buchanan for President Inc. is still winding down...

Lobbying 101.(college student loan cuts provoke campus activism)(No Sacred Cows)
December 22, 1995... Who says student activism is dead? The "Contract With America" may have caused barely a stir on college campuses, but when congressional Republicans aimed their budget-cutting axes at the student-loan program, students took notice. They began...

Rationing research.(federal spending cuts hurt Huntington's disease victims, researchers)(No Sacred Cows)
December 22, 1995... Betty Lichtenberg regularly Beats banana splits and hot fudge sundaes. On a 4,000 calories-a-day diet, she says her 57-year-old body is performing an ongoing marathon. Lichtenberg, one of some 30,000 Americans with Huntington's disease, saw the...

Falling wages: why salaries keep sinking when corporate profits are soaring.
December 22, 1995... Nursing used to offer secure, well-paying jobs. But nowadays nurses like Melinda Bagby worry about layoffs and are afraid to ask for a raise. A coronary-care nurse with 15 years' experience at Audubon Regional Medical Center in Louisville, Ky.,...

The reporter who knew too much: how Florence George Graves developed the Packwood story.(ex-Sen. Bob Packwood's sexual miscoduct)(Cover Story)(Interview)
December 22, 1995... Ask Florence George Graves why she was so dogged in her reporting of the story of Bob Packwood's sexual misconduct, and she's likely to respond, with characteristic self-deprecating humor, that she had "bought the Common Cause line" about one...

The other Packwood scandal.(ex-Sen. Bob Packwood's misuse of influence and campaign funds)(includes related articles)(Cover Story)
December 22, 1995... In the stranger-than-fiction world of Washington politics, it's worth remembering that former Sen. Bob Packwood once had to be dragged from his office and then carried onto the Senate floor--feet-first--before he'd vote on a campaign finance...

Citizen power will force campaign reform in '96.(Special Report)(include related articles on pending legislation, current lobbying/influence peddling practices, and Common Cause reform activities)
December 22, 1995... This is an exciting and incredibly challenging time in the fight for comprehensive campaign finance reform. We begin 1996 with powerful momentum and a special opportunity for change. Thanks to the hard work and persistent grassroots efforts of...