Word: boren
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Nonetheless, by the beginning of next month, Senators David Boren (D-Okla.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) will ask their colleagues to place a cap on their newfound wellspring of campaign funds. With Senate PAC contributions up 385 percent between 1976 and 1984 and with special interests using their influence to help bury this measure, PAC reform seems as likely a prospect this spring as real tax reform. But if this bill fails, the spectre of quid pro quo campaign contributions will further haunt American politics...
...forestall such developments, Congressmen from oil and gas states are seeking an oil import fee to raise the price of foreign crude and protect the U.S. energy industry. Says Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma, who last week wrote Reagan urging him to support the plan: "If prices fall further, it will bring our exploration to a screeching halt." At Boren's request, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, agreed last week to hold hearings on the proposal...
...going to stand indicted as hypocrites across this country if we don't address this," Oklahoma Democrat David Boren heatedly told the Senate last week. Soon afterward, his colleagues deftly avoided the issue at hand. By a vote of 84 to 7, the Senate agreed merely to study congressional campaign financing by special-interest political-action committees, or PACs. In so doing, the upper chamber dodged a proposal by Boren and Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater for severe restrictions on PAC contributions, which totaled $105.3 million in last year's congressional races...
...hamstringing the PACs, Congressmen would be denying themselves a heavy advantage that they now enjoy over challengers: three-fourths of PAC contributions go to incumbents. Officeholders who won re-election last year with 70% or more of the vote got $19.1 million from PAC pockets. The Boren proposal would restrict PAC contributions to a total of $100,000 for a House candidate and up to $750,000 for Senate aspirants, based on state population. The PAC limits could be proposed again in the spring--a dim prospect when 34 Senators, many fueled with PAC money, will be starting their...
...compromise: Block, with President Reagan's approval, would sign a letter pledging the Administration to make "adequate" direct loans (amount unspecified) through the Farmers < Home Administration and also to ease the terms under which the Government will guarantee repayment of $650 million in loans from commercial banks to farmers. Boren and his allies reluctantly accepted this as the most that could be achieved immediately. But when Boren took the actual letter to a meeting of all 47 Democratic Senators Thursday afternoon, they rejected it unanimously. The Democrats were incensed by a sentence in which Block called any additional extension...