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Ashcroft's signature legislative victory came during the 1996 welfare-reform effort, when he crafted the charitable-choice provision, which made it easier for religious groups to receive government money to provide social services like drug-treatment and job-training programs. Ashcroft defenders point to charitable choice as evidence of his ability to weave his private religious convictions into creative public policy. "You don't want government to turn religious groups into government agencies," says Joe Loconte, a specialist in church-state relations at the Heritage Foundation. "Figuring out how to get public money to religious groups--that...
...Less than 24 hours into his former rival's administration, the Arizona senator appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," where he informed host Tim Russert that he is urging the new president to consider the campaign finance reform bill he co-sponsored with Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. The invitations will be polite at first, of course. But McCain made it clear that if no move was made by Easter, he and Feingold will try to attach the bill to Bush's policy agenda any way they...
...Monday, when McCain and Feingold introduced their campaign finance reform bill to the Senate, they revealed a meticulously crafted work of compromise, and Wednesday McCain is scheduled to meet with the new President in an attempt to push campaign finance to the top of the administration's agenda. The bill bans soft money (unregulated funds given to political parties for nebulous "party building" purposes) but raises the cap on cumulative individual contributions to all federal candidates and parties to $30,000 (was $25,000). The legislation also doubles the amount (to $10,000) that individual contributors can give to state...
...Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives," Bush said. "We will reform Social Security and Medicare, sparing our children from struggles we have the power to prevent. And we will reduce taxes, to recover the momentum of our economy and reward the effort and enterprise of working Americans. We will build our defenses beyond challenge" - that would be SDI - "lest weakness invite challenge." And those faith-based organizations? "They will have an honored place in our plans and laws," Bush declared. "Compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government...
...Renown for his flair for publicity and a penchant for jogging suits, Sharpton is now pushing his own program of election reform, whose principal objectives are the adoption of a uniform standard for voting machines, vote-counting and voting roll purges...