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...bill, introduced on Monday, is running a two-week-long gauntlet on the Senate floor, with scheduled votes every three hours on this amendment or that, most of them put forth by reform opponents looking to kill McCain-Feingold by diluting it to death...
...Tuesday, McCain and Feingold cut their first deal, with Pete Domenici, over the so-called "millionaire's exemption" - allowing the opponent of a self-financed candidate to raise extra money to keep up. Thus blessed, the amendment passed 70-30, and McCain-Feingold acquired its first alteration but probably not its last...
...TIME.com: With so much debate and so many amendments - and campaign finance being complicated enough already - is there a way to chart McCain-Feingold's progress without reading all the fine print...
...Right. The question is, what does this bill look like when it's finished - and whether Bush will sign it. With Bush in the White House, if this thing goes in looking like McCain-Feingold and gets so adjusted that it looks more like the Hagel bill every day, then it's very likely we'll have some kind of campaign finance reform. (Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is promoting a softer soft-money bill...
...feel that the evils of the system have just been further codified. But it's important to remember that even with all the publicity over the Breaux defection (Louisiana Senator John Breaux declared his opposition to the bill last week), and all the rumblings on the Democratic side, McCain-Feingold still has the votes to pass the Senate...