Word: hagel
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...roll call proceeded and the number of Senators voting to reject Hagel's soft-money provision grew, McCain and Feingold headed to the press gallery, and Feingold checked with the clerk. It was 59 to 40, with one Senator...
...Monday McCain was killed by a friend, on Tuesday it was his turn to kill one. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, fellow war hero, was one of the only Senators at McCain's side during his ill-fated presidential bid. Yet now he was the one standing in McCain's way. Hagel was sponsor of an alternative bill that instead of banning soft money would limit it: his measure would allow couples to donate $540,000 in each two-year election cycle to candidates and parties, not much of a brake on the current system. McCain and Feingold knew that Hagel...
...turned out, Hagel did McCain and Feingold a favor. He knew there were Senators who didn't like all of his bill, and he feared being outmaneuvered; so he divided it into three parts and let the Senate vote on each. At first Feingold and McCain wondered what he was up to. "Then I realized, oh, this is great!" Feingold recalls. "We're going to finally get the vote we've been wanting to have for five years--up or down on soft money. That was the turning point...
...fate of the measure seems to be riding on whether and by how much to raise the hard-money limits. Hagel, whose alternative bill limiting but not banning soft money has the quiet support of the White House, told TIME he is ready to offer his measure if no deal emerges. Another battle looms over the bill's provision barring unions, corporations and interest groups from running "issue ads" for or against candidates close to Election Day. Opponents of the bill are also expected to try to plant a time bomb called "non-severability," which ensures that if any part...
...Consider this: The day before it was to pass the Senate, Chuck Hagel - who saw his own rival bill go down to McCain's last week - casually noted on CNN that McCain didn't sit on the Rules Committee, which had jurisdiction over the bill, so he didn't have a legitimate claim to sit on any committee that resolves differences between the House and Senate versions. To which top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle, appearing on CBS, replied that he would appoint McCain to the necessary committee - in one of the Democratic slots - if the Republicans refused...