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OPPOSING VIEW
I take contri-
Baucus, D-Mont.
8,000
y-y
butions. So
Bond, R-Mo.
8,000
n-n
Inouye, D-Hawaii
8,000
y-y
what? The issue is free speech.
Snowe, R-Maine
8,000
y-y
Specter, R-Pa.
7,916
absent
By Mitch McConnell
Reid, D-Nev.
7,000
y-y
Moseley-Braun, D-III.
5,500
y-y
The brouhaha over tobacco contributions il-
Murkowski, R-Alaska
5,166
n-n
lustrates the power of public disclosure. Being
Gregg, R-N.H.
5,166
y-n
from a tobacco state, I proudly hail my tobac-
Torricelli, D-N.J.
5,000
y-y
co contributions. Politicians from other states
Wyden, D-Ore.
5,000
y-y
Levin, D-Mich.
4,250
y-y
brag of spurning them. To each his own; the
Cleland, D-Ga.
4,000
y-y
voters can be trusted to decide what is appro-
Daschle, D-S.D.
4,000
y-y
priate. To that end, I trust USA TODAY will
Lautenberg, D-N.J.
4,000
y-y
analyze the relationship between trial-lawyer
McCain, R-Ariz.
4,000
y-y
contributions and votes against fee caps in the
Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
4,000
y-y
tobacco bill:
Kennedy, D-Mass.
3,250
y-y
Byrd, D-W.Va.
3,000
85% of trial-lawyer contributions to fed-
y-y
Bennett, R-Utah
2,666
y-y
eral campaigns in the 1995-96 election cycle
Landrieu, D-La.
2,500
y-y
went to Democrats.
Lugar, R-ind.
2,500
n-n
90% of Senate Democrats last week vot-
Akaka, D-Hawaii
2,000
y-y
ed against an amendment to the tobacco bill to
Coats, R-Ind.
2,000
n-n
cap lawyer fees at $4,000 an hour; 90% voted
Dorgan, D-N.D.
2,000
y-y
Graham, D-Fla.
2,000
against a $1,000-an-hour cap; 98% voted
y-y
Harkin, D-lowa
2,000
y-y
against a $250-an-hour cap.
Johnson, D-S.D.
2,000
y-y
Is the Democrats' trial-lawyer bonanza at-
Smith, R-Ore.
2,000
y-y
tributable to principles attracting contributions
Feingold, D-Wis.
1,900
y-y
or contributions dictating principles, including
Hutchinson, R-Ark.
1,750
n-n
a nearly universal aversion to any caps on tri-
Jeffords, R-Vt.
1,100
y-y
al-lawyer fees? Are trial lawyers motivated by
Biden, D-Del.
1,000
y-y
Durbin, D-III.
1,000
y-y
principle in their strident opposition to fee caps
Feinstein, D-Calif.
1,000
y-y
or because so many of them stand to become
Glenn, D-Ohio
1,000
y-y
billionaires from tobacco lawsuit fees exceed-
Sarbanes, D-Md.
1,000
y-y
ing $90,000 an hour?
Reed, D-R.I
500
y-y
USA TODAY sees campaign finance "re-
Leahy, D-Vt.
250
y-y
form" as salvation from so-called "special in-
Collins, R-Maine
200
y-y
Bingaman, D-N.M.
0
terests" - a reformer pejorative reserved for
y-y
Boxer, D-Calif.
0
y-y
practicing capitalists. The reform agenda USA
Brownback, R-Kan.
0
n-n
TODAY advocates stifles speech and partici-
Bumpers, D-Ark.
0
y-y
pation by citizens, candidates, groups and par-
Chafee, R-R.I.
0
y-y
ties, and it is stymied by the Constitution. To-
Enzi, R-Wyo.
0
n-n
bacco is a convenient nemesis, but USA
Kohl, D-Wis.
0
y-y
Mikulski, D-Md.
0
TODAY's agenda extends far beyond that in-
y-y
Murray, D-Wash.
0
y-y
dustry, as it silences the voices of anyone not
Sessions, R-Ala.
0
n-n
fortunate enough to control a newspaper.
Stevens, R-Alaska
0
n-n
Wellstone, D-Minn.
0
y-y
Sen. Mitch McConnell. R-Ky., chairs the Na-
Source Center for Reponsive Politics Federal Election Commission
and USA TODAY research
tional Republican Senatorial Committee.
Peep shows
Ozzie and Harriet (1952-1966), which invit-
ed viewers to share the sanitized upbringing
of David and Ricky Nelson. And it explains
Last Tuesday, a woman identified only as
our morbid interest in documentaries like An
Elizabeth gave birth live on the Internet. This
American Family, the 1973 PBS series chart-
comes hard on the heels of such exhibition-
ing the disintegration of the Loud family.
ist exercises as the JenniCam, which is fo-
What's the universal appeal of such tech-
cused unblinkingly on the quarters of Jennifer
no-peeping? We are all closet voyeurs, of
Ringley. She doesn't shrink from it for any
course. But maybe we are all closet exhibi-
activity.
tionists, too. Maybe we sense that liberation
The urge to share too much (and the equal
is nothing more than the lack of shame. Ei-
urge to peek too much) is a constant force of
ther way, the future seems obvious. Eventu-
human nature. It explains our uneasy interest
ally, point-and-shoot, point-and-click tech-
in movies like The Truman Show, about a
nology will make candid windows onto
character whose entire life is secretly script-
mundane events too common to care about.
ed and broadcast. It explains our cheerful in-
Then viewers will have to get a new life -
terest in such shows as The Adventures of
their own.
USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1998
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