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...Institute will both provide funding for government innovations around the world and serve as forum for government officials, journalists, students and policy analysts to discuss political reform...
...Ford Foundation has sponsored similar programs promoting government reform around the world, programs that will now be overseen...
Unfortunately, opponents of reform are trying to forestall consideration of any compromise by adding needless restrictions to the law. One Finneran idea, to pay for the law through a check-off box on tax forms, would emasculate the law by removing most of its funding. Opponents have also suggested that the Clean Elections provisions should be only be approved along with a new tax, to test if voters truly accept the costs associated with the law. Other means of funding the plan exist, and both suggestions are self-interested attempts by cowardly state legislators to kill the bill without taking...
Forget campaign finance reform: there's one issue that politicians on both sides of the aisle know will score them big points in the next election-airlines...
...when Tom Daschle couldn't stretch out campaign finance reform long enough to push the full budget debate until May, Bush - and the Republican leadership - won. Lott has promised that some form of the Bush budget will get though the Senate if they have to stay up all night voting. McConnell will set the pace. And the urgency that the Democrats almost turned against Bush and his disconnected rhetoric is now back on the President's side. After all, what better excuse is there for compromising than the fact that U.S. consumers need their stimulus ASAP...