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Reform Party of the United States of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Reform Party supports: * Banning the mass importation of temporary foreign workers via the abuse of the H1-B and the; L-1 programs, the impact of which is to hold down the wages, working conditions and incomes of American workers, both immigrant and native-born alike;
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American Reform Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The American Reform Party is a minor political party in the United States that was formed in a factional split from the larger Reform Party of the United States in October 1997. The split occurred w...
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Reform Party has its origin in the 1992 independent presidential campaign of billionaire H. Ross Perot. That year, Perot offered himself as a centrist, independent businessman who could break through the two-party logjam in Washington and solve the country’s economic and fiscal problems.
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1996 - Reform Party earns ballot status in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and gains access to federal campaign funds. After initially declaring he will not run again, Perot runs for President a second time, winning 8.5 percent of the popular vote.
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The reform party was born in 1992 out of widespread disaffection with the two mainstream parties and a perception of waste, inefficiency and corruption in government.
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