by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 7, 2001 | News
Soft money is unregulated and unlimited money that corrupts the political process at the federal level. Soft money goes to groups that support candidates, even though candidates do not control the group campaigning on their behalf. Hard money goes directly to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 7, 2001 | News
Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russell Feingold, D-Wis., introduced a bill in the United States Senate in January to ban “soft money” contributions that corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals make to political parties. Reform-minded...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 7, 2001 | News
Many of America’s religious public policy organizations are divided on campaign finance reform. Those on the religious right argue against reform on free speech grounds. In a joint letter to the United States Senate in 1999, the National Right to Life Committee...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 22, 2001 | News
A majority of Americans believe President George W. Bush will govern with compassionate conservatism, according to the most recent CNN-USA Today Gallup poll. The poll, taken before Saturday’s inauguration, found that “58 percent of Americans believe Bush...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 17, 2000 | News
Americans are overwhelmingly happy and optimistic, according to an October 6-9 Gallup poll. A majority (94 percent) of Americans identify themselves as “very” or “fairly” happy, while 78 percent of Americans are optimistic about the...
