Common Cause Magazine articles from June 1995

Common Cause Magazine archives from June 1995

Hog heaven. (Senate passes swine research funding bill)
June 22, 1995... Cutting the federal budget is hard enough, but cutting the pork that's in it is another thing altogether. So when senators were asked to choose between spending $33.7 million on swine research and other agricultural study facilities and $5...

Do as we say.... (Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation)
June 22, 1995... Though talk of private charities, rather than government, supporting the social safety net has gotten a lot of press lately, one wealthy foundation that promotes the theory falls short in practice. The Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley...

With friends like these.... (fund-raisers for Republican presidential candidates)
June 22, 1995... If, as Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) said in announcing his campaign for the presidency, "The most reliable friend you can have in American politics... is ready money," a politician's second-best friend must be the person who raises it. With that...

Government by tantrum. (bill aims to limit Supplemental Security Income eligiblity)
June 22, 1995... In four years Justin, now 11, was rushed to the emergency room 30 times for bleeding joints. He made 60 non-emergency doctor's visits during the same period. He has a partially treatable form of hemophilia. Jason is almost nine and talks about...

All's fair? (Fair Government Foundation)
June 22, 1995... Democrats cried foul when the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) made four contributions totaling $175,000 to the National Right to Life Committee in the days leading up to last fall's election. But equally unusual donations of...

Money rules. (interview with budget analyst Robert Greenstein)(Interview)
June 22, 1995... Budget analyst Robert Greenstein says the nation's fiscal problems are real, some of the proposed solutions won't work, and citizen involvement is needed to save us from a fate worse than debt. It was seemingly overnight that one of the key...

Take the money and run. (Republican Party-dominated Congress attacks Federal Election Commission)
June 22, 1995... Angered by new regulations that restrict the use of campaign funds, members of Congress have gone after the nation's elections watchdog. Although they're in the business of policing electoral campaigns, employees of the Federal, Election...

Money down the drain. (Private Property Act)
June 22, 1995... For years California's big growers have fed their crops with taxpayer-financed irrigation water. Now they want Uncle Sam to pay them for water they don't get. Less than a week before the House Ways and Means Committee voted to cut many federal...

1995 Common Cause public service achievement awards.
June 22, 1995... Janelle Goetcheus, M.D. A dedicated physician who brings healing and hope to the homeless of Washington, D.C. Having seen firsthand the disabling poverty, disease, substance abuse, mental illness and hopelessness that plague the homeless in...

CC mobilizes to preserve Watergate-era reform. (Common Cause)
June 22, 1995... Common Cause has achieved a major victory in its battle to preserve the presidential campaign finance system - the most important political reform in nearly a century. On May 24, by a 56-44 vote, the Senate passed an amendment sponsored by...

Common Cause members make a difference.
June 22, 1995... When I think about Common Cause, I'm reminded of the story of the two stonecutters. When asked what they're doing, the first one says, "I'm cutting stone." The other says, "I am part of a team helping to build a grand cathedral." Common Cause...

Keep working to preserve public financing and ban soft money.
June 22, 1995... The presidential campaign finance system is saved for now, but the battle to preserve it and ban soft money is just ahead. On May 24, the Senate passed the Kerry Amendment, 56-44, to restore funding for the presidential campaign finance system...