Gramm Seals NRA Fundraiser Letter Controversy
U S Senate hopeful Phil Gramm aided the National Rifle Association by sending a fundraising letter printed on look alike stationery. NRA officials defended the tactic as common political fundraising, while critics questioned ethics and the use of congressional resources.
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GOP
Phil Gramm
National Rifle Association
U.S
NRA
Gary Roope
Koops
Gramm
Josh Goldstein
Private
Center For Responsive Politics
Michael Beard
The
Coalition To Stop
Wayne LaPierre
Congress
House
Senate
BIA Plans Broad Dismissals Amid Budget Cuts
Ada Deer warns nearly 900 Bureau of Indian Affairs employees face dismissal as budget cuts loom through 2002. She notes continued cuts if Congress stays the same and Congress Republican leaders aim to erase the deficit. A House Senate panel proposed a 170 million cut from the Interior budget, but the bill was rejected and no date set for a new plan.
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Congress
Ada E. Deer
Secretary of Interior For
Indian Affairs
Deer
Department of Interior
House-Senate
BIA
Interior Department
Conference Committee
House of Representatives
Espy tied to agribusiness lobbyist plea and debt aid
Independent Counsel disclosed evidence that former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy sought help from lobbyist James H. Lake to retire his brother’s campaign debts. Lake pleaded guilty to arranging $5,000 in illegal corporate contributions after Sun-Diamond Growers top lobbyist Richard Douglas relayed Espy’s request, a claim Dowd disputes.
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Agriculture
Mike Espy
Espy
Donald C. Smaltz
James H. Lake
Henry Espy
Lake
Richard Douglas
Sun-Diamond Growers of
California
Douglas
John Dowd
Gun Free School Zones Grow Across 44 States
Education Department reports 44 states and the District of Columbia have enacted mandatory expulsion for students bringing guns to school under the Gun Free Schools Act. Only Kentucky and Michigan reportedly lag along with four states that took no action. President Clinton signed the act to push zero tolerance. states risk losing federal funds if they fail to comply. A 1995 CDC survey found more than one in ten eighth to twelfth graders carried a weapon to school in one month.
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District of Columbia
Kentucky
Michigan
Richard W. Riley
Colorado
Mississippi
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Riley
Clinton
Centers For Disease Control
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