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...number of Republicans who support the reform bill. If all 50 Senate Democrats back it, McCain will have the 60 votes needed to close down the filibuster his GOP colleagues would launch to kill it. Bagging Cochran "shook the earth" for GOP senators, says Nebraska Republican senator Chuck Hagel, who has written his own campaign finance legislation. "We're going to have to deal with campaign finance reform this year whether the President-elect likes...
...Lott is trying to outmaneuver McCain, perhaps by preempting his bill with one that Hagel has crafted - a rival measure that conservative Republicans find more palatable. Instead of an outright ban, Hagel's measure would put a cap of $60,000 on the soft-money contributions a business, union, PAC or individual could make in any year. The Nebraska senator says he's having "serious discussions" with Bush aides on fine-tuning the measure so the new President might back it. McCain could also be derailed with a little presidential pressure. Some of the GOP senators supporting his bill might...
...final margins in the House and Senate turn out to be, lawmakers in both parties say it's time to forget about all the sweeping promises Bush and Gore made this year. Whoever emerges as President "will lack the governing authority to implement his agenda," says Senator Chuck Hagel, the independent-minded Republican from Nebraska. For Bush or Gore, the only possible path to legislative success will be right down the center aisle. "The next President should call 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans to the White House and say, 'You're gonna be my base,'" says Senator Chuck Schumer...
...vetting team. They enlisted accountants, lawyers and doctors to look over their lives. They answered touchy questions probing for criminal records, past drug use and illicit affairs. Some of them, like New York Governor George Pataki, were summoned to private interviews. The process was so laborious that Senator Chuck Hagel needed a full two weeks. When Congressman John Kasich was finished, he couldn't close the flaps on the packing box he had filled...
...action by either the Bush candidacy or an overwhelming disgust with Clinton's peccadilloes. I've talked to women, men and even a few teenagers whose opinions on education, literacy and child care jibe fairly close to my own. I went to a TIME lunch with Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel and, I am embarrassed to say, have developed a little crush on his straight-talking ways...