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The other major problem is the proliferation of PACs established to support or oppose a candidate that are operated "independent" of the official campaign committee. While Presidential candidates who choose to receive public funds are forbidden to accept any private contribution or coordinate outside expenditures, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled...
The official Reagan committee and the independent groups also shared a pollster, a political consultant, a direct mail firm, a telephone solicitation firm, and in one case an assistant treasurer. These overlaps, however small, seem to cast doubt whether Helms's idea of "independent" is what Congress had in mind...
On the surface, the mood ranged from cozy to playful as members of the 98th Congress convened to be sworn in last week. In the Senate, New Right Curmudgeon Jesse Helms of North Carolina, whose filibusters made him a renegade late last year, embraced two of his colleagues at once...
*The commission's members include former New Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady; former Texas Governor William Clements, a Deputy Secretary of Defense under Presidents Nixon and Ford; M.I.T. Dean of Science John Deutch; former Secretary of State Alexander Haig; former CIA Director Richard Helms; John Lyons, chairman of the defense...
The efficient functioning of the incoming Congress will depend on the ability of moderate Senate Republicans, like Baker and Robert Dole of Kansas, to broker consensus policies acceptable to both Reagan and the House Democratic leadership. For this to work, Helms and his band of renegade Republicans must be controlled...