Online NewsHour: Campaigns Under Scrutiny: The Issues: A Closer Look at the Issues Behind the Investigation

The Issues: *A Closer Look at the Issues Behind the Investigation*

The Online Explainers take your question on the investigation.

The NewsHour's coverage of the Congressional Investigation.

A closer look at the issues really under scrutiny by the Congress.

The investigation is big news in Washington, but how's it playing around the country.

THE GREAT DEBATE
SEPTEMBER 29: The Senate has begun debate of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill. The proposal, a slightly altered version of the one killed in 1996. The Online NewsHour explores the differences between the old and new bills and the status of the debate.

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION?
AUGUST 3: With news of the "Asian connection" coming from the Senate investigation, many are asking what impact is the hearings having on the political participation of Asian-Americans? The Online NewsHour explores the issue with elected representatives and political activists.

DEBATING IMMUNITY
JULY 27: When members of the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee decided last week to grant immunity to five individuals connected with possible violations of campaign finance law, they came down on one side of a tricky balancing act -- the need to bring out the truth versus the need to prosecute wrongdoers.

RESISTING CHANGE & RESISTING ARREST
JULY 16: Congress is often seen as a place that maintains the status quo and resists changes to the system. But the campaign finance reform fight of 1988 may be one of the most violent and strangest in Senate history.

THE FIGHT TO START THE HEARINGS
JULY 7: In preparing for their investigative hearings members of Senate Governmental Affairs Committee have faced a number of challenges, not the least of which is pronouncing the names of some potential witnesses. Kwame Holman report on the political manuevers behind the hearings.

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