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The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials of that branch, from engaging in some forms of political ...
A MoveOn.org Political Action ad plays the partisan blame game with the economic crisis, charging that John McCainâs friend and former economic adviser Phil Gramm âstripped safeguards that would have protected us.â The claim is bogus. Grammâs legislation had broad bipartisan support and was signed into law by President Clinton. Moreover, the bill had nothing to do with causing the crisis, and economists â not to mention President Clinton â praise it for having softened the crisis. A McCain-Palin ad, in turn, blames Democrats for the mess.