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...setting committee assignments and preparing for the session to come. This year, however, Congress has more important business to pursue. The next 15 days offer a unique chance for Congress to curtail the powerful voices of the special interests in politics and to pass the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill...
...conservatives--interests that fear their chokehold will be loosened if the McCain-Feingold bill passes--struggled mightily to keep the bill off the calendar. In the Senate, where 60 votes are needed to break a filibuster, the bill has been blocked by a diehard group of Republicans opposed to reform...
...forced to consider the measure in open debate. McCain believes he has the 60 votes to pass the measure over the Republican filibuster; in any case, we feel that those undecided Republican senators whose votes will be crucial would be wary of beginning their terms with a vote against reform...
...victory would place the House under similar pressure, and although the House Republican leadership opposes the bill, the votes may exist to override the leadership's decision and put the bill up for a vote. If passed, the bill would present an early test of Bush's commitment to reform. Bush would then have 10 days to veto the bill or allow it to become law; a presidential veto of the leading campaign-finance reform bill would have severe political consequences and undercut Bush's credibility as a "reformer with results...
...mechanism Gusmorino plans is a yearlong council calendar to keep track of council initiatives and deadlines. He says he'll also reform the "routine" things the council does, like postering and tabling, in order to distribute the workload evenly among council members...