Word: mccains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats are using an old gambit that couldn't save John McCain's last effort -- campaign finance reform -- but may well work this time around: threatening to attach the tobacco bill as an amendment to every piece of legislation that Lott touches. "The Republicans are under some pressure to keep the bill alive because they're in charge," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "They don't want to be a do-nothing Congress, and they don't want to get tagged with a pro-tobacco label." So they budged, and both Daschle and the White House seem...
WASHINGTON: When Big Tobacco disavowed John McCain's tobacco legislation, its loudest gripe was that greedy Washington politicians were turning what was once a fair deal between the industry and the states into a $516 billion federal shakedown. Well, the Marlboro Man may have the last laugh: The same political squabbling that created the McCain monster looks set to destroy...
...told the FCC to expand an existing industry-funded program that provides low-cost telephone service in rural areas and inner cities into one that would hook up schools and libraries. "We gave them much more of an opening than we have in the past," says John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. "They did what bureaucrats do when you give them money and power...
...backroom negotiations that continued into last weekend, the White House hammered out a deal with G.O.P. Senator JOHN MCCAIN to modify his $518 billion antitobacco bill, which will be the subject of contentious debate in the Senate this week. Despite demands from leading Senate Democrats--and some Republicans--that the price of a pack of cigarettes be raised by $1.50 over five years, the Administration agreed to support McCain's more modest $1.10-a-pack hike. In return, the Arizona Senator strengthened the provisions that would penalize the industry for not meeting targets in reducing teen smoking. Also, McCain...
...before it starts." This from the head of the Republican fundraising committee, who single-handedly torpedoed campaign finance reform on the grounds that caps on soft-money contributions were unconstitutional. Maybe he's sore that the trial lawyers contribute overwhelmingly to Democrats. Maybe he just doesn't like John McCain...