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1. Ross Perot -- Reform Party
   KWAME HOLMAN: A month ago, Ross Perot accepted the presidential nomination of the political party he founded and primarily funds. The Reform Party endorsed Perot at its convention in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, after a nominal challenge from another candidate. The Reform Party has organized nationally and now is on the
2. Campaign Finance Reform -- Republican Party
   Ask someone why campaign finance reform failed in the 103rd Congress and the answer includes the usual finger-pointing at House Democrats, Senate Republicans, and the president. This is a fair but incomplete assessment.
3. Reformation -- Protestant Reformation
   The Scottish Reformation was part of the movement throughout western Europe which led to national churches breaking their ties with Rome. Its leader in Scotland was John Knox who was greatly influenced by John Calvin, the Reformer of Geneva. The Leaders of the Reformation: At the forefront of the Reformation were the Lords of the Congregation, a group of powerful nobles who were in favour of the Reformed faith. John Knox (1505-72) was the most prominent Scottish churchman involved. He had been born near Edinburgh and had been ordained as a priest.He had studied at St Andrews University and entered the priesthood. Because there were too many priests in Scotland for the size of the population, he found work in East Lothian as a notary and during his time there became a follower of the protestant leader, George Wishart, who was burnt at the stake in 1546.
4. Agrarian Reform -- Agrarian Reform Law
   Agrarian reform has been a recurrent theme in history. The Greek and Roman eras were filled with violent struggles between landowners and the landless. The land reform issue was a major factor in the Gracchian agrarian laws. During the Middle Ages, demands for land reform triggered peasant rebellions, including the Peasants’ Revolt in England led by John Ball and Wat Tyler in 1381 and the German Peasants’ War of 1524–26.
5. Immigration Reform -- Comprehensive Immigration Reform
   The Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation suffered a setback on Thursday failing to garner support from a majority of Senators to limit further debate and move to vote for final passage of the proposal. Supporters tallied 45 votes for the procedural measure to speed the bill forward, 15 short of the 60 votes needed to move to a final vote. 50 senators voted to continue debating additional amendments to the bill.
6. Welfare Reform -- Welfare Reform Bill
   The consequences of welfare reform have been dramatic. As expected, welfare rolls (the number of people receiving payments) dropped significantly (57%) in the years since passage of the bill. Substantially larger declines in welfare rolls were posted by many states, and even big city-dominated Illinois achieved an 86% reduction in welfare recipients. [MacDougal 2005] Child poverty rates for African American families have dropped the sharpest since statistics began to be tallied in the 1960s; although critics argue that this is due more to overall economic improvement than to welfare reform, and that in any case the rate of child poverty in the United States is still far higher than in nations with greater welfare protections. Some would counter that this apparent disparity is due to misleading statistical analysis (measuring inequality rather than poverty) and that welfare rolls in the United States historically are much more closely correlated with government spending rather than economic fluctuations. The original bill was set to expire in September of 2002; Congress passed numerous reauthorizations as debate continued over Republican attempts to increase the amount of hours that recipients should be required to work.
7. Political Parties -- Party
   Political parties and pressure groups are the main organisations which allow for participation in the political system. Parties, though not originally mentioned in the Australian Constitution, are crucial to understanding the realities of Australian politics. Most members of Parliament represent political parties, and parties closely influence policy development and the operations of both Parliament and the Executive. The Australian party system has been relatively stable, but both major groupings have experienced division and reconstruction at times. The traditional party system was based on socioeconomic interests, although this relationship has become less clear in recent times. Minor parties have often been influential and are an important variable in the political process.
8. Agrarian Reform -- President Sanchez
   On November 29 the Bolivian Senate approved the law modifying Bolivia's 1996 Agrarian Reform law. The lower house of congress, where President Evo Morales's MAS party has a clear majority approved the law quickly, but MAS needed 3 votes from opposition parties who hotly contested the initiative. The vote took place after a week of heightened tensions and public protest.
9. Reformation -- Middle Ages
   The Reformation truly ends the Middle Ages and begins a new era in the history of Western Civilization. The Reformation ended the religious unity of Europe and ushered in 150 years of religious warfare. By the time the conflicts had ended, the political and social geography in the west had fundamentally changed.
10. Welfare Reform -- Recipients
    Progressive pessimists were blind to the promise of reform partly because they believed that the American discomfort with welfare was really a mask for racism. Welfare recipients were, and are, disproportionately black: African Americans totaled about 37 percent of the welfare rolls in 1996, though they were only about 12 percent of the population. If Americans didn't like welfare, pessimists reasoned, it was because they didn't like blacks.

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