Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James A. Traficant (D-Ohio) took a different view. "I understand the game--we come with ethics reform and we sneak in a pay raise," he said...
...ethics-reform legislation would bar House members from accepting fees for speeches, but they could suggest their hosts pass on up to $2,000 in the member's name to a charity of the member's choice. The bill requires members to reveal the donor but not the destination of the money...
Initiatives aimed at raising state revenue include a Medicaid reform package, a cap on additional benefits for welfare recipients and assessments of college trust funds...
Sanders, who was elected mayor three times of the 40,000-person Vermont town since 1981, linked the aggregation of wealth and power in the United States to the inability of government to address basic needs ranging from education to housing to campaign financing reform...
...session to approve Modrow, the first secret balloting in the Communist-dominated Parliament elected a new speaker, Guenther Maleuda, who told the assembly it was duty-bound to heed the calls of the reform movement...