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...First, by Thursday night McCain-Feingold may have an Achilles' heel: non-severability. That vote, a bid to make the entire bill contingent on the constitutionality of all its parts, will attract not only overt enemies of the bill but covert ones too, and could be a close...
...Week Two, Day Four of the Senate debate on campaign finance reform, McCain-Feingold was ready to cross the threshold...
...just may happen. Which is not to say that all the Republicans have climbed aboard, or that some Democrats won't be jumping ship. But the prospects for final passage Thursday night or Friday of the soft-money ban that John McCain and Russ Feingold have been ramming against the Senate's doors for five years now have never, ever looked better...
...Russ Feingold, acknowledging that the courts might well strike Snowe-Jeffords down, called it a baby-and-bathwater issue and quoted his partner McCain: "Non-severability is French for 'kill campaign finance reform,'" Feingold said, "and I think he's right." Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who still hasn't gotten over Rehnquist's deciding Florida vote, announced that the conservative court had too much power already - and that campaign finance reform was worth risking an imbalance down the road...
...John Breaux, head Democratic defector and co-sponsor with Tennessee Republican Bill Frist of the non-severability amendment, argued that McCain-Feingold's three main components - the soft-money ban, the raising of hard-money limits, and Snowe-Jeffords - all went together. Fellow defector Robert Torricelli concurred: Without any one of the three, the system goes out of whack...