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WASHINGTON: Be it penance or politics, Bill Clinton is really getting behind the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. While Minority Leader Tom Daschle was throwing a procedural temper tantrum over Republican stalling on the bill Tuesday, Clinton dropped an even bigger bombshell ? by writing to Trent Lott and threatening to call Congress into special session unless the bill gets some hearty October debate...
...wading into the Atlantic today, the Senate pulled back from ordering a cutoff date for funding U.S. troops in Bosnia to force the soldiers home. Instead, Senators settled for a non-binding resolution in support of the June 30 deadline already promised by the Clinton administration. After Senator Russell Feingold's cutoff proposal met with strong objection from majority leader Trent Lott, and others, the compromise resolution finally ensured that nothing would change for the troops. TIME's Mark Thompson wasn't too surprised that politics had once again stopped at the water's edge. "I don't believe Congress...
...each, the Clinton Administration was readying a new feint on the campaign-finance front: trying to reverse the Supreme Court's landmark 1976 ruling, Buckley v. Valeo, which held that limits on candidates' spending infringe on their free speech. Last fall Clinton boosted his efforts to pass the McCain-Feingold bill that would curb soft money and give candidates cheap TV time, but now it's pretty much dead. Two weeks ago, he asked the Federal Election Commission to ban soft money by regulation, a request most reformers regarded as only a gesture. The Justice Department is now eyeing some...
Most recently, Snowe has been involved in political struggles over the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, as reported in The New York Times Magazine...
Just not in his lifetime. Ever since the revelations of Indonesian influence peddling and itinerant Chinese businessmen began dominating headlines last fall, Clinton and Gore have made a great show of support for the McCain-Feingold reform bill, which would ban soft money altogether. This is one time they can hide behind the bully pulpit, since the decision now rests with Congress...