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Conflicts of Interest in the Senate
The LA Times investigates five senators who were lobbying for certain companies and corporations. These companies were funding the senators or their immediate family members. The investigation revealed that all the senators had sons who had recently launched lucrative businesses as consultants for these corporations. Altogether the Times revealed that there were 28 US senators receiving funds form various corporations.
Tags: US senators; US senators and major corporations; funds from corporations; Ted Stevens; Harry Reid; Orrin Hatch; John Breaux; Trent Lott; FOI
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Judge Not
The controversy over President Clinton's nomination of Enrique Moreno's nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has lead to the baladeering of Moreno in folk songs usually reserved for the legendary and the dead. Questions concerning whether his experience was adequate for such a high court were raised to Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Others contend that Moreno, a Harvard Law Graduate with the support of the El Paso Bar Association and congressman Silvestre Reyes (to name just two), is being rejected on other grounds. Gov. George W. Bush refused to intervene in the case, or even comment on it to the magazine.
Tags: Enrique Moreno; El Paso; George W. Bush; President Clinton; Orrin Hatch; Kay Bailey Hutchinson; Federal Judicial Advisory Group; Hopwood v. Texas; judicial appointment
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"Big Guys Want It All"
A newspaper editorial questions the Newspaper Preservation Act, a "unique exemption" from antitrust laws that allows newspapers to enter into joint operating agreements, fix prices and control the entry of smaller publishers into the marketplace.
Tags: Chronicle; Examiner; Orrin Hatch; Richard Thieriot; Will Hearst; John P. Frank; JOA; Sherman Anti-Trust Act