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After 22 months of arduous negotiation, Mitchell was able to force through the Good Friday Agreement, granting bipartisan home rule to Northern Ireland, and pointing the way towards paramilitary weapons decommissioning...
Though uncorroborated and vague, the terror alerts were a political godsend for an Administration trying to fend off a bruising bipartisan inquiry into its handling of the terrorist chatter last summer. After the wave of warnings, the Democratic clamor for an investigation into the government's mistakes subsided, but Rowley's memo had members of both parties turning up the heat again. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle seized on the document as reason to appoint an independent commission to examine intelligence failures prior to Sept. 11, an idea the White House intensely opposes. Daschle says he will bring a bill...
Smyth argues for a greater role for third parties in American politics. But he fundamentally misinterprets the role of the Federal Election Commission (FEC). He argues that, “[c]urrently, elections are supervised by the bipartisan Federal Election Commission” and that “the FEC keeps third party candidates out of elections.” This is simply not true. The FEC has no authority at all over state ballot access laws, that is, laws that determine which parties appear on the ballot. Nor does the FEC have authority over the manner of election...
Because this reform diverts money from the payroll taxes that support today’s retirees, it will require funding. But it is affordable. The bipartisan President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security developed three models for using retirement accounts to keep Social Security solvent. The cost of reform ranges from $400 billion to $1.1 trillion from now until sometime between 2028 and 2043, depending on the model. These estimates are well within the projected budget surplus for the next 10 years alone, which the Office of Management and Budget now puts at $2.4 trillion?...
Currently, elections are supervised by the bipartisan Federal Elections Commission (FEC). It is comprised of three Republicans and three Democrats who are chosen by congressional leaders. Among these six, two (Commissioners Bradley Smith and David Mason) are outspoken opponents of campaign finance reform. This fact raises the question of whether the commission will even enforce the new laws. But the bigger problem is that the FEC keeps third party candidates out of elections. To provide unbiased oversight, the federal government must disband the commission and replace it with an independent commission. This change would take the politics out of supervising...