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...that have poured at least $1.5 million into his campaigns over the years. He has already won passage of a bill that makes it harder for investors to sue fraudulent brokers. (His closest aide, Michael Kinsella, is a former lobbyist for the Securities Industry Association and an active fund raiser.) And he is pushing ahead with the most sweeping bank-deregulation package in history, the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which forbids mergers between banks and securities firms. D'Amato's reform would throw open the doors to mergers between banks and companies from nonfinancial industries as well...
None of these assaults seem to be having much effect on the Democrats' Fund Raiser in Chief, Bill Clinton. Although his approval rating has gone no higher than around 45%, the Clinton-Gore '96 campaign last week reported receipts of more than $9 million in contributions, much of it from small donors. Still, Senate leader Bob Dole's campaign has also raised $9 million in the past three months. And even Clinton's success is one more sign that he and his party in Congress are sailing in different directions...
When he's not getting rich, he's becoming ever more famous. There's Gingrich the Small-Screen Star, who appeared regularly on National Empowerment Television; and Gingrich the after-dinner toastmaster, who can command $50,000 a plate at a fund raiser; as well as Gingrich the erstwhile college professor. If he doesn't get a grip, we may soon have Newt the Fragrance as well as coverage of Congress on a pay-per-view basis...
...quarter of a billion dollars. (He had acquired the fund for a mere $5 million the year before.) In April 1972 he secretly dispatched an employee with $200,000 in $100 bills to Maurice H. Stans, Commerce Secretary for Richard Nixon and at that time chief fund raiser for his re-election campaign. Federal prosecutors accused Vesco of trying to bribe the Nixon Administration to head off the sec probe. Stans and Attorney General John Mitchell were later indicted on charges that they intervened on Vesco's behalf in the sec case. Vesco, by then living in Costa Rica, refused...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole traveled to Los Angeles to knock some of its pre-eminent citizens at a fund raiser. The presidential candidate criticized entertainment moguls for producing what he called "nightmares of depravity"-films, television and music filled with sex and brutality that "push the limits of decency." Dole took particular aim at Time Warner (TIME's parent company) for its dissemination of violence-laced gangsta-rap music...