Word: hagel
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...After running a few gauntlets, like Hagel's soft-money legalization and a hard-money fight that ended in a sensible compromise, and picking up a few constitutional soft spots, like the constitutionally vulnerable amendment aimed at keeping the special-interest groups from bullying the political parties, the McCain-Feingold soft-money ban cleared the severability hurdle Thursday with a surprisingly strong 57-43 showing...
...After weathering Chuck Hagel and his soft-money legalization plan Tuesday, and getting the word Wednesday from White House spokesman Ari Fleischer that President Bush had no plans to stand in their way, McCain and his partner turned to the tricky business of hard money - and finding a contribution limit that both Republicans and Democrats could be satisfied with...
...Rather than ban "soft money" donations to political parties, Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel's rival campaign finance bill would restrict them to $60,000 in yearly donations. Hagel's bill would also triple to $3,000 the limit on individual hard-money contributions, and codify full-disclosure requirements on donations...
...Breaking down the Hagel bill into its three parts and voting on each separately, the pro-McCain forces went two for three. Senators OK'd the full-disclosure requirements (which is the one part of campaign finance reform acceptable to hard-line opponents like Mitch McConnell and is not deemed a poison pill by McCain) and voted down the first two, leading supporters of the McCain-Feingold bill to cautiously claim a victory...
...Hagel doesn't see himself standing in the way of his friend's life's dream. "Don't make this into a Shakespearean struggle," he says. "This is not an issue between John and me personally. We've always known the day would come when we would go different ways." But of all the issues in all the world, why would Hagel pick McCain's signature bill to fight over? He's got his principles too. "John's bill has the unintended consequence of weakening political parties by depriving them of soft money, which will then go to darker, unaccountable...