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Democrats say last week's surprise decision by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to bring the bill to the floor is only Lott's attempt to shift attention from renewed inquiries into Republican campaign finance woes...
...news that Attorney General Janet Reno had started the process that may end with an independent counsel to probe his White House phone calls, Clinton announced he would keep Congress in session until it debated the reform bill. That posed a problem for Senate majority leader Trent Lott of Mississippi, who doesn't think a system in which Republicans raised $549 million in campaign '96--at least 50% more than the Democrats--needs all that much reforming. He also knows that Fred Thompson's Senate hearings, while intended to fry the other guys, have put both parties...
...their offer of free television time to candidates who accept voluntary campaign-spending caps. Their bill's main surviving feature is a ban on "soft money" contributions, which pay for general party-building activities as opposed to individual campaigns. But even before the Senate debate started, Republican leaders, including Lott and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, were predicting that the smaller bill would go nowhere. "We'll debate it," promised Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the chief fund raiser for Senate Republicans. "And then we're going to kill...
...leaving the bill well short of the 60 votes needed to cut off the filibuster McConnell has sworn to bring against it. But with so much more attention on finance corruption, talking the bill to death would risk a public backlash against Republicans. So before it comes to that, Lott is likely this week to start attaching amendments designed to make Democrats flinch...
...Trent Lott and some bipartisan Senators want to redesign the Senate chamber [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 8]. This would be the biggest government money pit since the construction of the Rayburn Building. The idea of putting up something that is "tasteful, historically appropriate and...television-friendly" will give way to things that are gold plated and unnecessary. The cost will easily hit $20 million because when Senators are doing for themselves, they just can't stop. I would much rather the public revolt and rip out the seats and air conditioning from both chambers. Uncomfortable legislators just might get the people...