...them. The most important issues, tabulated on a spreadsheet, were economic justice, democracy, education and campaign finance reform. Collinge, an aerospace engineer who later founded a website about problems with student loans, lists the congressional...

...hair shirt: He appeared before the liberal advocacy group Public Citizen to field questions from reporters and campaign-finance-reform activists. "If somebody told me a number of years ago that I'd be sitting in this room, in this building...

Within the contentious arena of campaign finance reform, one of the few areas in which all sides agree...of disclosure. For years, opponents of other campaign finance reform measures argued that they were unneeded because...

...including favorites such as term limits and campaign finance reform. He often sounds defeatist when asked about whether...the same fate,'' he said of term limits and campaign finance reform. ''You've got career politicians that don't...

...partisan games. But Penny said a new president, the turn of the century, and a seat in the Senate instead of the House, might give him the chance to address such important issues as campaign finance reform and Social Security solvency.

...Thus far, for all his talk about ''big ideas,'' the catchiest idea he has presented is himself. Even on campaign finance reform, an issue on which he cares deeply and has genuinely led, he gives off an air not so much of anger at special...

...Democratic Party.'' The outspoken liberal advocated campaign finance reform, more access to health care, affordable child...the candidate's goals of racial healing and campaign finance reform. ''Why I am supporting Bill Bradley heart and...

...soft money,'' that is because the parties will only weigh in once the primaries are done. The case for campaign finance reform therefore remains pressing, and so is the case for a review of the primary schedule. The front-loading needs...

...to move the country closer to that goal. He was equally detailed and didactic on education, the environment, campaign finance reform and a dozen other topics various voters raised. Like Clinton, Gore promised that all his proposals would fit...

...New Hampshire's many independents but also among registered Republicans. His military experience and call for campaign finance reform resonated. Sixty-three percent of Republican voters said McCain says what he really believes, not just what...