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| Meet the Press | Face the Nation | Mclaughlin Group | This Week | Total | |
| Issues June 1999 - December 1999 | |||||
| presidential elections | 21 | 18 | 11 | 15 | 65 |
| Hillary Clinton and the NY senate race | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
| budget surplus and tax cuts | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 23 |
| George W. Bush - family, history, cocaine and pop quiz | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 |
| Pat Buchanan | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| clemency for Puerto Rican FALN members | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| McCain and campaign finance reform | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| Waco investigation | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Los Alamos and Chinese espionage | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| JFK Jr. death | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Al Gore | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| the Reform Party | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| nuclear test ban treaty | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Columbine shooting and gun control | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| Jesse Ventura | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Brooklyn Art Museum exhibit vs. Mayor Giuliani | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Egypt Air Flight 990 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Barak and Middle East peace process | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Bill Bradley | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| terrorism | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Kosovo | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| Lewinsky and Starr | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Medicare | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Elizabeth Dole | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| education | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| HMOs and Patient Bill of Rights | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Speaker Hastert | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| free trade with China | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| the millennium | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Russian spying on the State Department | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Microsoft case | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Elian Gonzalez | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Dutch: memoirs of Reagan | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Time Person of the Century | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Steve Forbes | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Dan Quayle | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| General Wesley Clark's early removal | 2 | 2 | |||
| Women's World Cup soccer victory | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Bauer's adultery accusations | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| school violence | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| East Timor | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| the Christian right | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Donald Trump | 1 | 1 | |||
| Alan Greenspan | 1 | 1 | |||
| Holbrooke nomination | 1 | 1 | |||
| moon landing tribute | 1 | 1 | |||
| Nixon's resignation | 1 | 1 | |||
| satirist Mark Powell | 1 | 1 | |||
| North Korea weapons build-up | 1 | 1 | |||
| Reggie White and the Bible | 1 | 1 | |||
| the divorce rate | 1 | 1 | |||
| father's day | 1 | 1 | |||
| interest rate hikes | 1 | 1 | |||
| Internet taxes | 1 | 1 | |||
| digital divide | 1 | 1 | |||
| HI-B visa program | 1 | 1 | |||
| immigration | 1 | 1 | |||
| Hispanic vote | 1 | 1 | |||
| mail order brides | 1 | 1 | |||
| Russian corruption | 1 | 1 | |||
| Panama Canal | 1 | 1 | |||
| Y2K | 1 | 1 | |||
| bombing of Chinese embassy | 1 | 1 | |||
| gambling | 1 | 1 | |||
| Tina Brown's kickoff party for Talk Magazine | 1 | 1 | |||
| urban sprawl | 1 | 1 | |||
| toilet water level regulation | 1 | 1 | |||
| Clinton as lame duck | 1 | 1 | |||
| Sammy Sosa | 1 | 1 | |||
| homosexuals and Christians | 1 | 1 | |||
| doctors' union | 1 | 1 | |||
| heat wave | 1 | 1 | |||
| Janet Reno | 1 | 1 | |||
| Naomi Wolf | 1 | 1 | |||
| Yeltsin's health | 1 | 1 | |||
| Jerry Springer possible senatorial campaign | 1 | 1 | |||
| tribute to Kirkland - former head of AFL-CIO | 1 | 1 | |||
| mental health | 1 | 1 | |||
| Colin Powell and America's Promise | 1 | 1 | |||
| airport traffic | 1 | 1 | |||
| focus groups | 1 | 1 | |||
| Chechyna | 1 | 1 | |||
| Mars Lander | 1 | 1 | |||
| TOTAL | 103 | 81 | 82 | 80 | 346 |
| anti-trust | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| corporate crime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| corporate welfare | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| environment | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| consumer issues (bank and phone charges, HMO abuses, ...) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| military industrial complex | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| civil justice/tort reform | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| commercialism | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| world bank/international monetary fund/foreign aid | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| renewable energy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| union-busting/labor law reform/unions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| deregulation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| privatization | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| multinational capital flight | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |