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To get the Senate to pass a ban on unregulated "soft-money" contributions to the national parties, which totaled $487 million for the 2000 election, McCain and his Democratic co-sponsor, Russell Feingold, had to accept amendments that have caused a near mutiny among reform supporters in the House. Liberal...
For the past year this lack of respect has been made clear in various ways. Carolina has been confrontational with town leaders. Residents were given little input as to the shape of the final master plan. And Carolina has reversed itself on a number of promises, including one made not...
Instead of choosing between the Frist or Nickles plan, the White House and Lott settled on a hodgepodge of amendments grafted from both plans that Republicans threw at the Democratic bill to pick it apart. Lott also tried for a while to string out debate on the measure to give...
But the strategy didn't work. Daschle kept Senate Democrats in line and peeled off enough moderate Republicans to defeat hostile Republican amendments by comfortable margins. The only compromises Democrats were willing to make were on their provision making employers liable in some civil suits. On other issues, such as...
By compromising on the employer provision, Daschle defanged the HMO attack ads and GOP rhetoric that the Republicans thought was their best weapon. "The danger is we made too big a deal about this," Frist says of the employer hullabaloo. "We set it up that way because we said the...