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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...
THE BOREN-GOLDWATER amendment would be a step toward cutting the power of the big PACs. It would reduce the amount that a committee could give a congressman by 40 percent, and it would limit the total amount of PAC funds a legislator could accept. While the measure falls short...
"We're 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...
Snafus in the field are exacerbated by overlays of bureaucracy, charged Goldwater. When the Marines landed in Beirut in 1982, their orders sifted through no fewer than eight levels of command. The Marines' failure to dig in properly against terrorist attack--at the cost of 241 lives--was attributed partly...
Such basic issues are not likely to be resolved as long as the system pits rival services against each other in an indiscriminate scramble for more or newer weapons. Shaking up the Pentagon, Washington's most entrenched bureaucracy, will not be easy. The rumblings of dissatisfaction from longtime Pentagon loyalists...