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...Mitch McConnell, counter that the problem with politics is not that there's too much money, but rather that there' s too little. They favor lifting all restrictions on spending coupled with fuller and faster disclosure rules. The two views are the extremes; in the middle is the McCain-Feingold bill, which would ban soft money contributions, but does little to ad dress the probability that donors would simply find another way to give...
...some of the growing number of people insisting on a special counsel are Democrats. In the Senate those include Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a sponsor of the dying McCain-Feingold campaign- finance reform bill, as well as Daniel Moynihan of New York and Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. In the House it's California Representative Henry Waxman, lead Democrat in its fund-raising probe. This makes for the kind of situation that requires Washington memoirs of the '90s to have a separate index heading on "Clinton, temper of." Last week he was making late-night phone calls to ask Democrats what...
Democrats are playing their own game. Senate minority leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota says Democrats will not agree to fund Thompson's committee until Republicans set a date for voting on McCain-Feingold. But they are also insisting that the Thompson probe focus on congressional fund raising, knowing that is the very thing Republicans want to avoid...
...been promoting the idea of requiring broadcast outlets to provide advertising slots, the main thing campaigns spend money on, free of charge to them. No big outlays, goes the reasoning, no need for big fund raising. But on the most important piece of current reform legislation, the McCain-Feingold bill banning "soft money" contributions, Gore has to keep his distance. One reason is that Republicans may walk away from it if they think Gore will boost his chances in 2000 by taking credit for its passage. Another is that Clinton badly wants that same credit for himself...
...Although just about every morning's paper was bringing another allegation of influence-peddling blatant enough to make Boss Tweed blush, the estimable John McCain had been able to attract only one other Republican Senator to the campaign-finance reform bill that he is co-sponsoring with Senator Russell Feingold. With a number of Democratic Senators also reluctant, McCain-Feingold was increasingly spoken of as a dead issue...