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Democrats always did like campaign finance reform a lot more when it didn't have the votes...
...McCain blithely maintains that he and Feingold "do not think this is a perfect bill," and that some vigorous debate and the right amendments can produce some form of reform that will win the necessary supporters from both sides of the aisle...
...very least, campaign finance reform will find out next week who its real friends are - even if it turns out there are a lot fewer than there used...
...President plans to devote his contingency fund to as yet unbudgeted policy goals. He estimates $156 billion will go to reform Medicare. And though he won't give numbers while Don Rumsfeld conducts his review of the Pentagon, a large chunk will surely pay for modernizing the military and developing a national missile defense. Bush says there will be plenty left to cover natural disasters like earthquakes and economic disasters like the budget gaps that will open up if the surplus falls short of projections...
...wider stage. This year he gave up some narrow committee assignments to take posts that will put him in the middle of debates over health, education and foreign policy. And he is looking to make his mark with passage of the patient's bill of rights, an HMO-reform measure that Edwards has co-authored with McCain. As a trial lawyer, he says, "the most important thing is for you to be better prepared than any human being in that courthouse." He thinks that's the trick in politics...