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...would ban unregulated "soft money" contributions to national parties. (It totaled $487 million in the 2000 election.) Gephardt worked the phones to stanch hemorrhaging by Democrats, who provide the bulk of support for the bill. McCain, who shepherded a similar measure through the Senate last April, targeted some 40 GOP congressmen who've backed reform in the past. His Straight Talk America PAC, for example, sent e- mails to 200,000 supporters across the country urging them to flood the congressional offices with phone calls...
...Each man also had his own style behind closed doors. Thursday morning, with the first vote on the bill just hours away, McCain raced his car to the Capitol Hill Club to crash a breakfast meeting Environmental Protection Agency Director Christine Todd Whitman was having with a group of GOP congressmen. As Whitman droned on about Bush's environmental policy, all eyes in the room shifted to McCain who darted from table to table extracting whispered pledges of support from four moderates. Three blocks away, Gephardt huddled with Democrats in a packed basement room off the House chamber, waving...
...chief sponsors, Republican Christopher Shays and Democrat Martin Meehan, added last-minute sweeteners to allow these groups to raise some soft money for their get-out-the-vote programs. But House Speaker Dennis Hastert had managed to drain support for the Shays-Meehan bill with a substitute drafted by GOP Rep. Robert Ney which capped soft-money donations to national parties at $75,000. With the outcome too close to call, Hastert ordered the Rules Committee to rig the floor procedure for considering the measure so that Shays and Meehan faced 22 potentially hostile amendments (including the Ney bill...
...governed floor activity. He could count on practically all Democrats supporting a procedural vote the party's leadership wanted. But to win, some Republicans had to be convinced to defy their Speaker, a heresy Hastert wouldn't forget. McCain dialed up the pressure. At one point he hauled seven GOP congressmen into Gephardt's Capitol office and, looking each one in the eye, asked if they'd "vote against the rule." Each said...
...GOP side, represented by the Ney bill (which is supported by the White House and puts soft-money caps at $75,000 per individual) the feeling is that they should try to go for a quick win. And if they can?t get a quick win, they should take a quick loss. They don?t want to be on the floor for weeks, taking a beating from the Democrats...