Campaign Finance Reform renewed by McCain Defends reform votes in Senate by attacking "soft money"
Who: James C. Miller III is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and counselor to the organization Citizens for a Sound Economy. Miller was the Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1985 to 1988, and Chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from 1981 to 1985. During 1981, he was Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief.
Among his many publications are Monopoly Politics (Hoover Institution Press, 1999); Fix the Budget! Urgings of an "Abominable No-Man" (Hoover Institution Press, 1994); The Federal Trade Commission: The Political Economy of Regulation, co-edited with Robert J. Mackay and Bruce Yandle (Hoover Institution Press, 1987).
Available to discuss:
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Have the bills that McCain supported in the past really addressed the problems of campaign finance?
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How does McCain project an image of being "outside the Beltway" while being a member of Congress for 17 years?
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Is McCain breathing new life into the Republican Party?
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Are Bush's points valid or is he just trying to regain lost ground?

