Word: bans
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...them could have some Democrats turning their backs on the whole deal. McCain and Democratic partner Russ Feingold said Wednesday that they were going to make things real simple for the Senate when their bill comes up for a vote next month: They?ll ask for a soft-money ban, nothing else, and take away wavering GOPers? excuses for holding out - notably by dropping their demand for regulation of advertisements by outside groups. "The idea is that it will make this a simple issue," says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney. "If any Republicans are feeling any political pressure...
Stay tuned for another episode of "As the Windmill Turns," starring John "Don Quixote" McCain. Campaign finance reform?s champions in the House, Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan (D-Mass.), have done their part again after getting their soft-money ban past an unfriendly Republican leadership on Tuesday night. After running a gauntlet of poison-pill amendments designed by GOP bigwigs to erode its support ? and picking up one, courtesy of upstate New York Republican John Sweeney, that would make Hillary reimburse us for riding Air Force One to campaign stops ? the bill sailed through...
Which is just what happened last year. And once again the bill ? a carbon copy of the 1998 version ? heads off to the Senate, where it has died oh-so-many deaths before. For years running, John McCain and Russ Feingold have seen their own soft-money ban gather a majority of 52 votes in the Senate, still eight short of busting the promised filibuster of the GOP?s head moneyman, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. The head?counters say eight votes is still just too much to roust up on an issue that?s near and dear to GOP leaders...
...bill's backers say cities pass zoning laws that keep churches out. They say children cannot wear the Star of David to school because of regulations meant to ban gang symbols. They say coroners perform autopsies on those whose faith holds that the corpse is sacred. In short, without the Religious Liberty Protection Act, says Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress, "you send a message to the state [authorities] that they have carte blanche to interfere with religious practices...
...country's moratorium is another country's protectionism, and the U.S. is suspicious of Europe's actions. Tension between the U.S. and the E.U. was already running high this summer after Europe decided to continue a ban on hormone-raised U.S. beef and the U.S. hit back with a 100% tariff on some E.U. food exports. Coming in the midst of such a catfight, the GM ban looks like vengeance as much as prudence. What's more, if Europe is so worried about GM foods, why is it growing them? France produces its own small crop of GM corn...