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...House, where Shays-Meehan, McCain-Feingold's long-standing shadow in the lower chamber, has passed by comfortable margins for years. But with Bush deferring the villain's role to Congress, if the reliable Senate backstop falls, DeLay is vowing to step into the Mitch McConnell role and do whatever it takes to stop the House from meeting McCain halfway. Shame, after years of high-pitched support, may keep Senate Democrats in line, but the wider (and more anonymous) bipartisan coalition that backs the ban in the House could prove to be vaporous. Campaign finance reform has always attracted...
...McCain-Feingold is not passed yet. Tom Daschle's services corralling a handful of happy-footed Democrats for severability appear to have been bought at the price of haste (got to foul up that Bush budget, after all), and the final victory that even Mitch McConnell expected Thursday night will not come until Monday. But after five years of butting up against Trent Lott's gatekeeping and McConnell's filibustering, John McCain and his shadow army of disgruntled voters finally got a soft-money ban onto the table, out where he could tempt senators with the prospect of a slightly...
...Mitch McConnell went straight for the other Democrats' queasy stomachs, daring Snowe-Jeffords supporters who say they've made it constitutionally sound to put their money where their mouth is and taunting Democrats with the prospect of big bad conservative special-interest groups run amok. "We will need the political parties to defend our candidates if Snowe-Jeffords is struck down," McConnell said...
...deal, which arose out of an amendment from Democrat Diane Feinstein of California, went through. When it was all over, Democrat Chris Dodd was saying he'd given as much as he could, and Republican Mitch McConnell was saying he'd gotten the minimum he could accept...
...Breaking down the Hagel bill into its three parts and voting on each separately, the pro-McCain forces went two for three. Senators OK'd the full-disclosure requirements (which is the one part of campaign finance reform acceptable to hard-line opponents like Mitch McConnell and is not deemed a poison pill by McCain) and voted down the first two, leading supporters of the McCain-Feingold bill to cautiously claim a victory...