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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...
...Where does the debate stand now? TIME congressional correspondent Douglas Waller, who is following the ongoing campaign finance reform saga, spoke with TIME.com Tuesday...
...TIME.com: Where are we today on campaign finance reform...
That would be a welcome change. Despite a number of recent victories--signing a $1.35 trillion tax cut, garnering overwhelming bipartisan support for his education-reform package, and winning decent marks for his first major foreign trip--Bush is slipping in the polls and losing support among independents. Almost 2 to 1, Americans trust the Democrats, not the President, to write a patients' bill of rights into law, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released last week. On other issues Americans say they care most about--the environment, the economy, Medicare, education, energy, Social Security--they have more...
...Unionist leader David Trimble's resignation as First Minister, due to take effect July 1 if the Irish Republican Army refused to disarm. Unless rescinded within six weeks, Trimble's resignation could cause the collapse of Northern Ireland's complex power-sharing arrangements. London and Dublin hope a new reform package will sway the I.R.A. to lay down its arms. THE NETHERLANDS Judgment Day Former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was delivered to the U.N. tribunal in the Hague for prosecution as a war criminal. His extradition coincided with the release of $1.28 billion to Yugoslavia. International donors said that...