Restoring Public Trust

ISSUE SUMMARIES
Issue summaries provide a quick reference to Centrists.Org general principles and most important links, within each topic area.

Basics:
Electoral Reform
Non-Partisan Commissions to Set Boundaries of Legislative Districts
Direct Presidential Elections
Performance-Based Government

Iowa's Redistricting Process: An Example of the Right Way to Draw Legislative Districts
07.21.2004 || In a time of bitter partisanship, the redistricting process in Iowa is refreshingly non-political. Iowa should be used as a model in revising redistrict-ing processes across the country.

Class Action Reform and a Congress That Can't (CentristPolicyNetwork.Org)
07.08.2004 || Hyper-partisanship and leadership failures explain why real problems -- like the abuse of class action lawsuits -- continue to go unaddressed.

Helpful Chronic Care Initiatives in the Medicare Bills
07.22.2003 || Some praiseworthy new proposals to improve chronic care are buried deep within the House and Senate Medicare bills.