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...special three-judge panel struck down several key provisions of the landmark Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act. The act, popularly known as McCain-Feingold, closes loopholes in existing laws that allow wealthy special interest groups to spend unlimited sums of money on political candidates. McCain-Feingold is an important step towards a more democratic political process, where the overwhelming influence of special interest money is not allowed to drown out the voices of voters. The Supreme Court should overturn the panel’s wrongheaded ruling...
...supplement. "We hope that this request will be included in the supplemental appropriations proposal now being prepared by the administration," wrote Kean and Hamilton in a March 19 letter to a CIA official who is in charge of intelligence community budgeting. The request has been endorsed by the entire bipartisan commission at a recent meeting. In denying the request, the White House irritated many of the members of the commission. "This is very counterproductive if the White House's intention is to prevent the commission from being politicized, because it will look like they have something to hide," said...
After a bumpy start that included the resignation of Henry Kissinger as its first chairman, the commission investigating pre-Sept. 11 government lapses may remain just as controversial. Two commissioners of the bipartisan panel, which holds its first meeting this week, told TIME they will push for a wide-ranging, aggressive probe that will include testimony from top Bush Administration officials who didn't testify last year in a joint inquiry by the House and Senate intelligence committees...
...right to liberate Kuwait (and wrong not to push on to Baghdad when he had the world on his side). Even after the hawks and doves changed parties during the Clinton years, Democratic hawks were right about the use of force in Bosnia and Kosovo. And in 1998 bipartisan hawks--a group that included such disparate spirits as Paul Wolfowitz and John Kerry--were probably right that Saddam Hussein's unwillingness to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspections was intolerable, a casus belli...
...lead singer Bono, already has a framework for a similar initiative. This organization has the support and funding of 36 different nations. The United States was called upon to contribute $2.5 billion to the Fund, but to date has only pledged $500 million. Bush even opposed a bipartisan Senate bill in June that would have committed an additional $700 million. So why the sudden generosity...