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...Lieberman. "My fists went up in the air, and I went '60'--the magic number, a filibuster-proof repudiation of the soft-money system," Feingold says. "Some tough things happened after that, but that was when we showed we had control of the Senate on this bill...
...could give, but by a much narrower vote, 52 to 47. That gave the reformers their road map. The votes to ban soft money were there, if they could find the right formula for increasing the $1,000 hard-money limit, which hadn't changed since 1974. McCain and Feingold had to come up with a hard-money deal, and quickly...
...Wednesday morning McCain and Feingold orchestrated matters to produce precisely the same number of votes for the Thompson and Feinstein proposals, to force both sides to the table while assuring they were on exactly equal footing. The summit was supposed to last an hour and a half, but stretched on for three. "Outside of Vietnam, I don't think John's ever been in a room for three hours," adviser John Weaver said dryly...
...until the final vote on non-severability Thursday afternoon, McCain and Feingold didn't know if they had the votes they needed to kill it. Seven or eight Democrats were worried that if the courts threw out the limits on independent issue ads, lawmakers would be left without the soft money they need to fight back. The tally was expected to be very close--a pro-reform lobbyist was counting 51 votes on his side--and there was even speculation that Dick Cheney might come in to break a tie. But at last, once it was clear the reformers would...
Cindy McCain sat in the gallery high above the action. On the floor her husband was so happy that he looked close to tears. Feingold, not known for his collegiality, was as congenial as could be, huddling with other Democrats, a broad smile on his face...