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...business to come up after the Memorial Day recess, Daschle vows, will be the patient's bill of rights--not the version Bush touted as a compromise, but the one Daschle wants, which gives patients vastly greater leeway to sue their HMOs. After the Senate passed the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform bill in April, Lott refused to send it to the House. Daschle told TIME, "I'll hand-deliver it if I have...
...both sides know the game is far from over. Tom DeLay, the Republican majority whip in the House, vowed last week that he will "try anything I can" to defeat the bill, and no one doubts it is possible. Though reform bills have passed the House twice before, McCain-Feingold has changed so dramatically that it has united DeLay and top Democrats in opposition. Sources told TIME that Democratic leader Richard Gephardt complained that the increased hard-money limits directly to Daschle. He was especially angered by plans to tie the limits to the inflation rate. "If politicians make their...
McCain's motives are admirable. It is his reason that is in question. The McCain-Feingold bill is based on a fundamental misconception: the notion that on every issue there is some abstract public interest--some objective, Platonic embodiment of the public good--and that this is thwarted by the influence of private interests. The premise is that private interests, pejoratively called "special interests," are bad. Are they? You might support the Sierra Club or the Arctic oil drillers. But can both be acting against the public interest? You might be for Sarah Brady...
...McCain-Feingold would shackle private interests by severely restricting their ability to express themselves politically. There are few more important or more cherished ways for those outside the political system to express themselves than by contributing to a political party that reflects their views. McCain-Feingold seeks to stamp that out. What would the bill do if it became law? Abolish influence peddling? Hardly. It would simply shift influence away from the inarticulate groups that today must buy media time or support political parties to participate in politics, and radically increase the influence of those already at the crossroads...
SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD Manages to keep campaign-finance reform afloat and share spotlight with media-fave McCain...