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...interest in congressional campaigns is directly linked to one of Ronald Reagan's pet projects, tax reform. The largest PAC contributors are usually the energy, real estate, banking and insurance industries, all of which benefit from tax breaks threatened by some of the tax plans under consideration. Not surprisingly, Oregon's Bob Packwood, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has received the most enthusiastic support: $2.6 million so far, $691,000 of it PAC money. Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer notes that PACS have donated $3.7 million to the 56 members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance...
...just praying the Governor will help me," Hargrave-Thomas says. But that is no easy decision. Hargrave-Thomas has a broad range of supporters--from Democratic Senator Carl Levin to Judge Gadola, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has publicly said she "very likely is innocent." But the victim's family opposes setting her free, and if Granholm did so, she would risk being labeled soft on crime. G.O.P. state chairman Saul Anuzis last week issued a statement warning the Governor not "to release a convicted murderer due to political pressure." --By James Carney
...rock-like epidermis, extraordinary strength, endurance and heightened senses, Concrete has all the attributes of a classic do-gooder. But here is where it starts to get interesting. Neither a troubled billionaire nor a brilliant scientist caught in an experiment gone wrong, Concrete has a secret past as Ronald Lithgow, a senatorial speechwriter. Captured by aliens while taking a remote mountain hike, he escaped, but only after having his brain transferred to a fantastical new body. Under the cover of being an experimental, government cyborg named Concrete, he lives as just another celebrity in L.A.'s freak show...
...Washington, D.C., several recent Harvard graduates were celebrating Bush’s victory in style at the Republican National Committee’s election-night party in the Ronald Reagan Building...
...think there’s a tremendous amount of responsibility that proctors have and maybe it would be helpful to cut 20 advisees to a more manageable number of 10 or something,” says Ronald Brown, who has served as a proctor in Holworthy for four years...