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Jewish Lobby Groups
Support Candidates
Washington (JTA) — As
campaign finance reform
legislation trudges through
Congress, Jewish groups
remain generally confident
that they can maintain their
ability to support pro-Israel
candidates and, with that,
the strong Jewish influence
in national politics.
The Jewish community
has a long history of par-
ticipation in the political
process, giving dispropor-
tionately great financial as-
sistance relative to the com-
paratively small Jewish
numbers in the U.S. popula-
tion.
Calls on Capitol Hill for
limits and even bans on
campaign contributions by
political action committees
have the Jewish lobby con-
cerned. But it is optimistic
that the effects on pro- Israel
PACs will be minimal.
After President Clinton
made campaign finance
reform a priority issue dur-
ing his run for the White
House, which he followed in
May with a proposal for
campaign overhaul, Con-
gress began grappling with
the problem.
Most observers expect that
the final legislation will cut
the amounts that PACs can
contribute to candidates in
congressional races, a
cornerstone of Mr. Clinton's
proposal.
Despite the expected cuts,
few in the Jewish commun-
ity expect a serious effect on
Jewish political clout in
Washington.
Overall, few Jewish groups
have taken a vocal position
on the issue of campaign fi-
nance reform, with the ex-
ception of a few organiza-
tions such as the Religious
Action Center of Reform
Judaism, a strong proponent
of reform.
Rabbi David Saperstein,
the Religious Action
Center's director, said that
House and Senate can-
didates sympathetic to Israel
will continue to enjoy
healthy contributions from
pro- Israel PACs despite
decreases in the amount that
PACs may give.
The main effect of PAC
contribution limits will be
on corporate PACs and not
on "ideological PACs" such
as the Jewish lobby, said
Jerome Chanes of the Na-
tional Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council.
Jews also participate in
the political process in ways
other than PACs, Chanes
said, such as by grass-roots
political organizing and
through individual contribu-
tions.
"Jews were not silent
before the formation of
PACs," and will not be
hushed by limitations on
PACs, he said.
However, Matt Brooks, ex-
ecutive director of the Na-
tional Jewish Coalition, a
group promoting Jewish
Republican political activi-
ty, thinks that the PAC con-
tribution limit would have a
"dramatic effect."
Candidates will have to
make up funds no longer
received from pro-Israel
PACs through fund-raising
efforts, he said.
The Senate's version of the
reform bill, which passed 60-
38 in June after a Repub-
lican filibuster, bans PAC
contributions from all con-
gressional elections.
But this provision is ex-
pected to be ruled an un-
Candidates who
accept spending
limits will receive
public funds.
constitutional limit on the
PACs' freedom of associ-
ation, according to Suzanne
Greenfield of Common
Cause, a non-partisan public
interest lobby.
The House has yet to in-
troduce such a bill, but is ex-
pected to do so by the end of
October. The House legisla-
tion is expected to be
modelled on a House-Senate
conference report that was
vetoed last year by then
President Bush.
Under the House plan,
one-third of a candidate's
total spending could come
from PAC contributions, Ms.
Greenfield said.
Another reform issue has
been public financing of con-
gressional campaigns, which
Jewish groups support as a
method of more direct public
participation in the cam-
paign process.
Public financing of cam-
paigns is needed "because
maximum participation by