Word: mccains
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WASHINGTON: Sen. John McCain, the Quixote of campaign finance reform, has a new windmill to tilt at: Getting the long-stalled tobacco deal signed into law. An early draft summary of the bill reveals that McCain's Senate Commerce Committee, needing to please Democrats, Republicans, the White House and C. Everett Koop all at once, has come up with a far harsher version of the agreement that Michael Moore and the state Attorneys General hammered out with Big Tobacco in June...
...ugly bit of politics. McConnell, as head of the GOP's campaign committee, isn't bashful about protecting the system that has served his party so well. Reminding GOP incumbents that powerful groups like the Christian Coalition, the NRA and the National Right To Life Committee all oppose the McCain-Feingold bill, McConnell then dared Mr. and Mrs. America to speak up for themselves. "No one in the history of American politics has ever won or lost a campaign on this issue," he said...
...campaign finance reform, which is long overdue, the President asked Congress to pass the McCain-Feingold bill to end the soft-money loophole which currently enables large and corrupting donations to funnel into national parties. Clinton also announced that he will ask the Federal Communications Commission to provide free or reduced-cost television time for candidates who voluntarily observe spending limits. These relatively modest proposals are the least that Congress can do to fix our broken campaign finance system...
...industry that used to fight to the death is now flinching, partly because it can't afford more embarrassment just as Congress is approaching a tobacco settlement. In the Senate, Republican John McCain of Arizona, no friend of tobacco, is predicting a ferocious fight. To begin with, the deal is nobody's baby in Washington. "Congress is not inclined to simply embrace an arrangement negotiated by the attorneys general with Big Tobacco in a hotel room," says a Republican aide. Some members of Clinton's circle, including Vice President Al Gore and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala...
Campion has been instrumental in ensuring top speakers for the ARCO Forum, including headline-makers such as Senators Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) and John McCain (R-Az.), who spoke this semester...