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...principal goal has been for a long time to get rid of soft money; this was the vote that got rid of soft money," Feingold said after the vote...
...drive to drive Democrats off the McCain-Feingold reservation with a hike in the hard-money limits will be back as a new amendment, perhaps as early as Tuesday evening. And the vote on "non-severability" - due as early as Wednesday or Thursday - still looms. But backers of McCain-Feingold (and it's interesting to note that buzz-worthy frosh John Edwards, Democrat of North Carolina, has lately been putting himself at the head of this pack) are ending all their press conferences with words like "very optimistic...
...Opponents of John McCain and Russ Feingold's vision of campaign finance reform have a ticking time bomb up their sleeves - expected to be introduced later in the week - and it's called "non-severability." That means that if any part of a campaign-finance bill that comes out of the debate is later ruled unconstitutional, then the whole bill goes down. And Monday, they planted the detonator...
...amendment also provided an opportunity for McCain-Feingold's enemies - many of Wellstone's fellow Democrats included. McCain, along with many experts, believes that such an extension of the ban is unconstitutional, because the constitutional hurdle is higher for such groups than it is for unions and corporations, which are already restricted in their political activities. And if non-severability passes and Wellstone's amendment is declared unconstitutional, the whole bill goes down. So opponents of McCain's bill hopped on board the Wellstone train, passing it narrowly by a vote...
...thought it was constitutional, I would have voted for it," McCain said afterward. With the non-severability vote now a potential bill-killer, and Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel's rival bill, which would limit but legalize the "soft money" contributions McCain and Feingold are desperate to ban, due Tuesday, the rest of the week just got a lot more dangerous. But McCain says it ain't over...