Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street was trading and taking profits with pent-up gusto: 754.5 million shares were sold last week, a record. Both the Administration and the Congressional Budget Office issued somewhat cheerier economic estimates for 1984 and beyond. But the federal budget shortfalls continue to mar the Reagan record: the nonpartisan CBO predicted that without further budget cuts or tax increases, the deficits will continue to grow, almost doubling the cumulative federal debt (now $1.3 trillion) over the next five years...
...others like them, are the first volleys in a new war against political action committees (PACs). Leading the PAC attack: Philip Stern, a Washington philanthropist and liberal Democratic activist who last September joined forces with New York Republican Whitney North Seymour Jr., a former U.S. Attorney, to form the nonpartisan "citizens against PACS." The group's goal is to pressure Congress into eliminating the corporate, labor union and special-interest PACs that make what Stern calls "ax-to-grind" contributions to candidates. Says he: "We want to make it uncomfortable for Congress to continue accepting PAC money...
Fred Wertheimer, president of the nonpartisan Common Cause, accused the Mondale committees of "threatening the integrity of the presidential public financing system." Hart filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, charging that the groups were violating federal laws; a ruling is not expected before June. The Coloradan also taped a series of radio and TV spots asking, "Can a President act in our national interest when he owes so much to special interests...
...Jesse Jackson called the President's program a "reverse Robin Hood process, taking from the poor and giving to the rich." Walter Mondale said that the Reagan Administration was "of the rich, by the rich and for the rich." The Democrats received some ammunition this month from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in a report that compared the size of tax cuts gained by different income groups. From 1983 through 1985, the CBO estimated, the 1.4 million households with incomes of $80,000 or more will receive income tax reductions totaling $35.4 billion, while the more than 40 million...
...telephone conversation between Marchais and Premier Pierre Mauroy. Marchais threatened to pull out of the government because two 1983 mayoral elections, won by Communists, were being investigated for campaign irregularities. Mauroy pleaded that the government was powerless; the Council of State, which rules on such matters, is independent and nonpartisan. Marchais, however, was in no mood to listen. The Communists have lost eleven by-elections since the municipal balloting last year, and under Marchais their share of the national vote dropped from 22% in 1978 to an estimated 13% now. If the party were to quit the government, however...