Congressional Reform
- Passwords for subscription database home use are available on a yellow sheet in the Media Center, and on Edline, under News.
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- General sites related to Congressional Reform
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- http://www.essential.org/orgs/CAP
- Ralph Nader’s Congressional Accountability Project includes information on:
Ethics Complaints and Materials
Internet Access to Congressional Documents
Congressional Pay and Perks
Congressional Reform Briefings
House Ethics Reform Task Force
Articles by Ralph Nader
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- http://www.citizen.org/congress
- Public Citizen´s Congress Watch – a variety of issues – liberal
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- http://www.heritage.org
- A wealth of articles from Heritage Foundation on issues of reform – conservative
Drop down on Domestic Policy Issues to Government Reform and press "Go."
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- http://www.manews.org
- We the People Institute – claims no affiliation with any interest group or political party. Click on "Search this site."
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- http://www.fairvote.org
- Fair Vote, The Way Democracy Will Be looks at voting system reform in the United States and abroad. It also examines other issues, including term limits, campaign finance reform, voter registration, electoral administration and ballot access rules.
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- Sites related to Congressional Pay
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- www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php#Congressional%29Reform
- Official Constitution Party (formerly the U.S. Taxpayers Party) – conservative
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- Sites related to Direct Democracy
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- Type in the search "direct democracy."
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- Thomson Gale’s Student Resource Center-Gold
- Do an "advanced" search on subjects.
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- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale)
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- Sites related to Term Limits
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- ABC-CLIOs American Government
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- Fair Vote, The Way Democracy Will Be
- Type in the search "term limits" in the search box at the upper right of the page.
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- Citizens for Term Limits
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- U.S. Term Limits
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Washingtonpost.com: Term Limits Special Report
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The National Conference of State Legislatures
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- Sites related to Campaign Finance Reform
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OpenSecrets.org: Campaign Finance Links
- Open Secrets from the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research group that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. Appears liberal.
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- Common Cause
- Common Cause is an organization that seeks campaign finance reform.
Click on the left side link for "Money In Politics."
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- Cato Institute
- Cato Institute – Libertarian. Favors deregulation of campaign finance.
Type in "finance reform" in the upper right search box.
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Fair Vote, The Way Democracy Will Be
- Type in the search "campaign finance" in the search box at the upper right of the page.
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- The Heritage Foundation
- The Heritage Foundation, which is critical of campaign finance reform proposals, is a conservative site.
Type in the search "campaign finance" in the search box at the upper right of the page.
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- bsd.mojones.com
- This site from Mother Jones magazine is liberal.
Go to the search box half-way down on the left side and type in the search "campaign finance."
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- The Center for Public Integrity
- The Center for Public Integrity is liberal.
Type in the search "campaign finance" in the search box at the upper right of the page.
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- Hoover Institution: Campaign Finance
- Easy-to-use site with a comprehensive coverage of campaign finance issues.
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- Sites related to Legislative Apportionment aka Gerrymandering and/or Redistricting
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ABC-CLIOs American Government
- Search for "gerrymandering" or "redistricting."
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- geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/gerrymandering.htm
- This is a summary of gerrymandering from a political geography publication linked from about.com.
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Fair Vote, The Way Democracy Will Be
- Look to the Issue Menu on the left. In the drop-down menu you will find both "gerrymandering" and "redistricting."
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- supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-357.ZS.html
- This sit covers Shaw v. Reno, a Supreme Court decision related to this issue.
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- bsd.mojones.com
- This site from Mother Jones magazine is liberal.
Go to the search box half-way down on the left side and type in the search "gerrymandering."
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