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Serious campaign finance reform triumphed in the Senate, and now the House is poised to begin heated debate over two divergent bills. (One, sponsored by Reps. Christopher Shays and Martin Meehan, looks a lot like the victorious McCain-Feingold, while the other, sponsored by Rep. Robert Ney, and favored by the G.O.P., leaves a lot of contributory loopholes wide open...
...side, represented by the Ney bill (which is supported by the White House and puts soft-money caps at $75,000 per individual) the feeling is that they should try to go for a quick win. And if they can?t get a quick win, they should take a quick loss. They don?t want to be on the floor for weeks, taking a beating from the Democrats...
...pipeline to Cabinet meetings he did not sit in on, complains that "Cheney comes back from the White House and tells nothing." Pete Williams, an NBC News correspondent who was for years Cheney's press spokesman, used to joke about how the capital was full of Che-ney watchers, a breed like Kremlin watchers, who would try to fathom the man's thinking from whatever small signs he gave...
...Gingrich variety, the kind who could vote against the Democrats all day and still abide by the old rules of cordiality toward the opposition, however much he grew to resent the autocratic leadership style of Jim Wright, the Democratic Speaker. When a young reporter asked Che-ney who was worth listening to among his House colleagues, he pointed her to Ron Dellums, a black Democrat from Oakland, Calif., who was far to the left of Cheney on just about everything. Whenever Dellums had the floor, Cheney told her, he always stopped to listen to what the man was saying...
...Crusaders evened the score at 1-1 when freshman midfielder Matt Ney gained possession of a cross from senior teammate Nicholas Vuono and pushed it pass Harvard goalkeeper Mike Meagher at the 73:07 mark...