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...That's the other big question. Daschle - whose real feelings about campaign finance reform have been the object of much speculation - may try to drag this debate out by talking as long as possible on any amendments that come up Thursday, in an effort to push the final vote on this into next week...
...Week Two, Day Two of the Senate debate on campaign finance reform, McCain-Feingold met the enemy...
...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...
...McCain fared even better with the third part of the Hagel bill, which was the most significant, at least in terms of principle. Senators voted to "table" Hagel's soft-money limits 60-40, essentially killing the provision. And suddenly the future of campaign finance reform looked almost bright...
...Opponents of John McCain and Russ Feingold's vision of campaign finance reform have a ticking time bomb up their sleeves - expected to be introduced later in the week - and it's called "non-severability." That means that if any part of a campaign-finance bill that comes out of the debate is later ruled unconstitutional, then the whole bill goes down. And Monday, they planted the detonator...