Common Cause Magazine articles from September 1993

Common Cause Magazine archives from September 1993

A real close-up look. (phony Washington D.C. 'honorary' tours for youth)(No Sacred Cows)
September 22, 1993... Every year thousands of high school students from across the country get classy-looking invites to travel to their nation's capital and see how their government works. The honor comes with a price tag: $730 for a six-day tour and $1,260 for the...

Credibility Gap. (The Gap and other service industries misuse Targeted Jobs Tax Credit program)(No Sacred Cows)
September 22, 1993... As members of Congress debated the Clinton administration's budget proposal this spring, there was one spending item that even Republicans refused to touch: a jobs program for the hard-to-employ. Yes, a jobs program. But Congress's quiet...

It's a small town after all: friends and kinfolk make for cozy relations in the nation's capital.
September 22, 1993... Here's the plot of the latest made-for-TV docudrama. The president of the United States gives a special White House pass to an old pal from back home, Harry Thomason. He's made a killing in Hollywood. Now he wants to play a role in government....

Lawyers on trial. (Association of Trial Lawyers of America fights tort reform)(includes related article on Association president Allen Arieff) (Cover Story)
September 22, 1993... It was 1992 and President George Bush and his political strategists were looking for a new Willie Horton, a political albatross that would sink Bill Clinton the way racially tinged horror stories of furloughed murderers had doomed Michael...

White-picket welfare: what would the suburbs be without federal money? Broke, that's what. (Rep Newt Gingrich's Cobb County, Georgia)
September 22, 1993... Bill Byrne hates high taxes. This puts the hard-edged former Marine right in sync with voters in Cobb County, Ga., a prosperous Atlanta suburb where politicians vie to be the most anti-tax and anti-government. A Republican, Byrne got elected...

Senate breaks filibuster on campaign finance reform; battle moves to the house. (U.S. Senate)
September 22, 1993... The U.S. Senate voted 62 to 37 on June 16 to end the Republican filibuster blocking action on S.3, the first time in 19 years that campaign finance reform advocates successfully broke a filibuster. Senate Republicans used filibusters and...

Holding Congress accountable. (U.S. House - campaign finance reform)(includes related articles)
September 22, 1993... The Senate's action on campaign finance reform legislation was a tribute to the tenacity of Common Cause members (see page 27). We now must multiply our efforts in the House of Representatives, where opponents are working to stop reform dead in...