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Artists and organizations accepting NEA grants are required to sign oaths which now include language from the Helms amendment, according to Marsha Adler, public policy deputy director for People for the American Way, a liberal watchdog group...
...Because the sugar lobby is too powerful," concedes an Administration official. "Too powerful" is putting it mildly. Public Voice, a Washington consumer watchdog group, will soon release a survey showing that between 1985 and 1989, even liberal Democrats took significant sums from Big Sugar's political-action committees -- men like House Speaker Tom Foley ($26,500), House Democratic whip Bill Gray ($14,500) and Senators Al Gore ($13,500) and Paul Simon ($15,250). All have voted with Big Sugar in the past and will probably do so again when New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley's reform bill comes...
...Joseph Moakley (D-Mass.), a member of the House Democratic leadership collected $441,364 in PAC contributions from 1983 through 1988, according to a report by Common Cause, a government watchdog group. The report detailed some $2.7 million in PAC contributions over the six-year period to the 11 House members from Massachusetts...
...bust-up. And the White House has raised press manipulation to a virtual art form, often for the narrowest political motives. The Reagan Administration, led by the Great Persuader himself, was notorious for its spin control. Last week the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington-based watchdog group, issued a report detailing nearly 100 instances of news orchestration, press restrictions and disinformation by the Bush Administration...
Massachusetts' two U.S. Senators received high marks in a report issued Monday by Common Cause, a watchdog group which pushes for congressional campaign finance reform and less reliance on political action committee money...