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Congressmen don't usually hang around on the House floor any longer than they have to. But for Gary Condit, it may be the only sanctuary left. On Thursday afternoon, as the campaign-reform bill was crashing to earth, so did the rest of his life. At the back of the chamber, the California Congressman leaned on the rail, chatting and joking with the men and women who still treat him as a colleague. As the others wandered away one by one, Condit lingered for a while, all alone...
...event’s organizers, four of Congress’ leading proponents of campaign finance reform—Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), Representative Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) and Representative Christopher Shays (R-Conn.)—publicly pleaded for legislators to reform what the four proponents described as a faulty system...
McCain and Feingold, both veterans of the Senate’s campaign finance reform debate earlier this year, supported Meehan and Shays as they sought to gain publicity for their House colleagues’ own campaign finance reform bill...
Meehan and Feingold were the most animated in their speeches, pounding their fists and shouting their demands for reform...
Meehan expressed concern that the House Republican leadership would attempt to significantly alter the bill when it came to be presented. He expressed concern that such modifications might destroy the reform effort...