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Campaign Finance Reform
Aired 10/24/1996

This fall, the presidential and congressional candidates will spend $1.6 billion on their campaigns, which is an all time high. Have we gone too far?
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  Thomas Mann
    director of Government Studies at the Brookings Institution, co-author of Renewing Congress
  Ellen Miller
    executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics
  Glenn Simpson
    reporter for The Wall Street Journal

Originally Aired: 10/24/1996

   
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