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...Ralph Nader has called for a House Ethics Committee investigation ofMajority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tx.), accusing Armey of improperly allowing a special interest group to circulate a letter on his congressional stationery. In a letter to the CEOs of 82 of the nation's largest corporations, Armey wrote that their pattern of contributions to charities "unfortunately" supported a liberal agenda. What has Nader riled is that although the letter was written on Congressional stationery imprinted with Armey's name and title, it was mailed by the conservative Capital Research Center along with a book that criticizes the alleged tendency...
Then-President Derek C. Bok appointed thecommittee after historians and Harvard Watch, anundergraduate group with ties to consumer advocateRalph Nader, complained about the overly stringentrules...
Opposing the legislation was the 60,000-member Association of Trial Lawyers of America, which characterized the reforms as "propped up by distortion and lies." In Alabama, Beasley said, with protection like this his vanquished foes "would have clicked their heels and chirped like larks." Ralph Nader was a particularly vociferous opponent. Nader said only $3 billion annually passes from losers to winners in insured payouts when companies are sued, pointing out that $3 billion is less than a year's profits for many large companies-Ford or GM, say. "Pick any company," said Nader. "There's more in profits...
...federal bench by Reagan in 1986, Sporkin has made himself a name as a man with little patience for malfeasance by Big Business. "He's a rare judge who is sympathetic to the way the law intersects with consumer interests and investor interests," says consumer activist Ralph Nader. It was Sporkin at his most sulfurous who dismissed the 1990 suit by which Charles Keating tried to regain control of Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose collapse cost taxpayers $2 billion. Bluntly accusing Keating of "looting" Lincoln funds, Sporkin also pointed the finger at the lawyers and accountants who had made it possible...
...Ralph Nader, an outspoken GATT opponent, managed to convince at least one Senator to leave the Clinton camp and vote against the treaty. "I started off believing I would probably vote for it. I'm a strong advocate of free trade but, after reading it, I'm going to vote against it," Sen. Hank Brown (R.-Colo.) told reporters after taking up a Nader challenge to take his "GATT Quiz." Brown eagerly took Nader's bait and changed his vote as a result.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...