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...surprise that last week, as McCain launched yet another attempt, the bouquet of flowers he received came not just from a Republican but from one sponsoring a rival bill that could kill McCain's. "It was a big day for John," says Nebraska's Chuck Hagel, who sent the flowers. A fellow Vietnam veteran, Hagel addressed the card to Captain McCain and signed it Sergeant Hagel...
...Consider this: The day before it was to pass the Senate, Chuck Hagel - who saw his own rival bill go down to McCain's last week - casually noted on CNN that McCain didn't sit on the Rules Committee, which had jurisdiction over the bill, so he didn't have a legitimate claim to sit on any committee that resolves differences between the House and Senate versions. To which top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle, appearing on CBS, replied that he would appoint McCain to the necessary committee - in one of the Democratic slots - if the Republicans refused...
...After weathering Chuck Hagel and his soft-money legalization plan Tuesday, and getting the word Wednesday from White House spokesman Ari Fleischer that President Bush had no plans to stand in their way, McCain and his partner turned to the tricky business of hard money - and finding a contribution limit that both Republicans and Democrats could be satisfied with...
...Rather than ban "soft money" donations to political parties, Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel's rival campaign finance bill would restrict them to $60,000 in yearly donations. Hagel's bill would also triple to $3,000 the limit on individual hard-money contributions, and codify full-disclosure requirements on donations...
...thought it was constitutional, I would have voted for it," McCain said afterward. With the non-severability vote now a potential bill-killer, and Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel's rival bill, which would limit but legalize the "soft money" contributions McCain and Feingold are desperate to ban, due Tuesday, the rest of the week just got a lot more dangerous. But McCain says it ain't over...