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And then came a weary-looking McCain, who only needed a minute. "If you vote for this amendment, you are voting for soft money," he said. "That's really what this vote is all about."
By 4:30 p.m., the Frist amendment had been tabled, though the issue probably hadn't gone away, and senators took some time to remember a fallen ex-colleague. McConnell whipped out a chart that demonstrated how bad the brave new McCain Feingold world was going to be for Democrats...
And what does the First Amendment say?
The deal, which arose out of an amendment from Democrat Diane Feinstein of California, went through. When it was all over, Democrat Chris Dodd was saying he'd given as much as he could, and Republican Mitch McConnell was saying he'd gotten the minimum he could accept.
The tripling of the hard-money limits was fought for by Republicans as a long-overdue inflation adjustment, if nothing else. McCain was willing to talk about it - he'd discussed a compromise along those lines with conservative Republican Don Nickles - but the limits hike was something of a dealbreaker...