Word: russ
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...amount of hard money individuals could give candidates and parties, and that compromise paved the way for the historic vote to ban the unlimited soft-money donations that parties could collect from corporations, unions and the wealthy. By the end of the week the Arizona senator, his sidekick, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and their merry band of china breakers actually had victory in sight - a victory that could lead to the most dramatic campaign finance overhaul since the post-Watergate reforms of 1974. McCain-Feingold's reforms are so sweeping, in fact, that no one can be sure of what...
...just may happen. Which is not to say that all the Republicans have climbed aboard, or that some Democrats won't be jumping ship. But the prospects for final passage Thursday night or Friday of the soft-money ban that John McCain and Russ Feingold have been ramming against the Senate's doors for five years now have never, ever looked better...
...Russ Feingold, acknowledging that the courts might well strike Snowe-Jeffords down, called it a baby-and-bathwater issue and quoted his partner McCain: "Non-severability is French for 'kill campaign finance reform,'" Feingold said, "and I think he's right." Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who still hasn't gotten over Rehnquist's deciding Florida vote, announced that the conservative court had too much power already - and that campaign finance reform was worth risking an imbalance down the road...
...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...
...this corner, the challengers - John McCain and Russ Feingold...