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...Senator Chuck Hagel Republican of Nebraska My brother and I were in the 9th Infantry Division. We had responsibility for the Mekong Delta, so I'm familiar with the general area where Kerrey's incident occurred. Our mission was to search and destroy, kill the enemy, run ambush patrols. I don't ever really replay (killings) at all. I learned a long time ago that that's a torture I don't wish to put myself through. (But) you can't help having certain recollections when something like (Kerrey's story) comes to light. What you do is you start...
...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...
...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...
...same day the Senators also knocked back Hagel's proposal to triple the amount of hard money individuals could give, but by a much narrower vote, 52 to 47. That gave the reformers their road map. The votes to ban soft money were there, if they could find the right formula for increasing the $1,000 hard-money limit, which hadn't changed since 1974. McCain and Feingold had to come up with a hard-money deal, and quickly...
...reforms of a generation ago. The post-Watergate effort to tidy our politics only had the effect of brushing dirt into different corners. Last week party moneymen were looking for loopholes. "Anybody who thinks you'll have less money in politics as a result is just unrealistic," says Hagel. "The money will just go outside the system." A Democratic fund raiser in California jokes that in the short run wealthy people "may save some money." But not for long. "There will be ways to get around this. You work with the issue groups more closely...