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...front of full patriotic regalia and tidy posters created by the event’s organizers, four of Congress’ leading proponents of campaign finance reform—Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), Representative Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) and Representative Christopher Shays (R-Conn.)—publicly pleaded for legislators to reform what the four proponents described as a faulty system...
McCain and Feingold, both veterans of the Senate’s campaign finance reform debate earlier this year, supported Meehan and Shays as they sought to gain publicity for their House colleagues’ own campaign finance reform bill...
...Shays-Meehan legislation was the House of Representatives’ version of the Senate’s McCain-Feingold bill. Among its provisions, the bills would ban so-called “soft money” contributions to political parties...
Meehan and Feingold were the most animated in their speeches, pounding their fists and shouting their demands for reform...
Serious campaign finance reform triumphed in the Senate, and now the House is poised to begin heated debate over two divergent bills. (One, sponsored by Reps. Christopher Shays and Martin Meehan, looks a lot like the victorious McCain-Feingold, while the other, sponsored by Rep. Robert Ney, and favored by the G.O.P., leaves a lot of contributory loopholes wide open...