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...politics. As McCain has noted, without campaign finance reform, it is difficult to expect that a Congress beholden to special interests will enact any of the other necessary legislation that Americans support. Gore has vowed to make campaign finance reform a top priority and has said the McCain-Feingold would be the first piece of legislation passed under his administration. Bush has been thus far unwilling to make this commitment...
Recently, Bush has tried to wrap himself in the rhetoric of reform, while refusing to change his opposition to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Last spring he was a "reformer with results," and he is currently on his "barnstorm tour for reform." In using these phrases, Bush is trying to reach out to reform-minded voters who supported McCain. But when Bush says "reform" he is talking about something very different from the reform sponsored by McCain and Sen. Russell Feingold (R- Wisc...
...Medicare (i.e. force seniors into HMOs). Reform-minded voters beware. For all his talk of reform, Bush would leave the current system of huge soft-money contributions intact, and the threat to our democracy would continue to grow. Gore is a leader, and he will work with McCain, Feingold and other reformers to clean up the political system and give our democracy back to the people...
...belittle it publicly. If the Congress had the time to waste floor debates on bills that were nothing but political statements, it had the time to vote and pass legislation that would have made a political statement by improving Americans' lives. On some bills, such as the McCain-Feingold campaign finance plan and a measure to correct retroactive immigration restrictions, there is still hope for agreement: The Republican congressional majority should view these bills as its last chance for partial redemption before the Nov. 7 elections...
...Bush implied that Gore is a politician who can not be trusted, Gore grilled Bush on his large tax cut proposal and his refusal to put Medicare in a "lockbox," and challenged him to support the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill...