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...Less than 24 hours into his former rival's administration, the Arizona senator appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," where he informed host Tim Russert that he is urging the new president to consider the campaign finance reform bill he co-sponsored with Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. The invitations will be polite at first, of course. But McCain made it clear that if no move was made by Easter, he and Feingold will try to attach the bill to Bush's policy agenda any way they...
...Monday, when McCain and Feingold introduced their campaign finance reform bill to the Senate, they revealed a meticulously crafted work of compromise, and Wednesday McCain is scheduled to meet with the new President in an attempt to push campaign finance to the top of the administration's agenda. The bill bans soft money (unregulated funds given to political parties for nebulous "party building" purposes) but raises the cap on cumulative individual contributions to all federal candidates and parties to $30,000 (was $25,000). The legislation also doubles the amount (to $10,000) that individual contributors can give to state...
...Senate colleagues at home. The teetotaling son of a famed Pentecostal minister, Ashcroft, a onetime Missouri Governor so strict that he refused to dance at his own inaugural ball, is the kind of hard-line conservative who makes liberal toes curl. Yet as he reached Senate Democrats like Russ Feingold and his old Yale classmate Joe Lieberman, he was able to elicit warm responses, or at least pledges of neutrality. Feingold called him a "respected public servant with a fine legal mind." New Jersey Democrat Bob Torricelli called him "a very good choice," praised his "sound judgment and high integrity...
Some Democrats, naturally enough, are delighted by the prospect of Republican disarray and by the chance to send Bush an unwanted gift. Democratic leader Tom Daschle told TIME he plans to make the McCain measure, which is co-sponsored by Wisconsin Democrat Russell Feingold, one of the first bills his party takes up after Bush is sworn in. Daschle wants to start debate next month, but that may be earlier than some of his Democratic colleagues want. John Breaux, a key moderate Democrat, says he's cool to the idea of "starting with something that's polarizing...
...Some Democrats, naturally enough, are delighted by the prospect of Republican disarray and by the chance to send Bush an unwanted gift. Democratic leader Tom Daschle told TIME he plans to make the McCain measure, which is co-sponsored by Wisconsin Democrat Russell Feingold, one of the first bills his party takes up after Bush is sworn in. Daschle wants to start debate next month, but that may be earlier than some of his Democratic colleagues want. John Breaux, a key moderate Democrat, says he's cool to the idea of "starting with something that's polarizing...