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...this," reports Branegan. "They see it as a way out, a show of bipartisanship that would put their disapproval on the record." And then, so the script goes, Clinton can make some more contrite comments and the country can move on. There's just one problem: Those in the GOP who are already calling for Clinton's resignation might simply ignore the censure -- and move ahead with impeachment anyway. Not everyone likes a Hollywood ending...
...lauded the court's decision as "a tremendous court victory." But the great uncounted can be an inscrutable bunch. Take motor-voter laws, which make registering to vote easier and which Republicans opposed on the tenet that the laziest voters were all Democrats. "Those laws have actually helped the GOP, for reasons that demographers still don't understand," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "You never know how it will come out." Certainly Clinton hasn't had much luck lately with the high court, and this time, as before, the law seems to be against him. But if he wins...
WASHINGTON: In Congress, Republican Christopher Shays and Democrat Marty Meehan laid one more beating on the dead political horse that is campaign finance reform Thursday. And though the Shays-Meehan bill passed the House by a rousing 252-179 vote -- surviving repeated attempts by the GOP leadership to water it down -- the bill is going to die in the same place that its Senate equivalent did earlier this year: right at Trent Lott's feet...
...Lott doesn't want to fuss with campaign finance anymore," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "There's just no benefit for the GOP to take it up -- their constituencies don't care anymore." Either that, or they're not rich enough to get Lott's attention...
WASHINGTON: The bullying of the attorney general continues. GOP hammer Dan Burton wants Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to tackle Clinton/Gore campaign finance allegations. Failing that, he's asked that the administration turn over two memos to Reno (one by FBI chief Louis Freeh and one by prosecutor Charles LaBella, both of whom agree with Burton). But Reno, says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon, isn't about to do either -- even if Burton's committee votes Thursday to hold her in contempt...