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...cycles ago. The pencils aren't so sharp anymore, and the jurors are passing notes and acting up. While they voted last week to reject Monica Lewinsky as a live witness and wrap up the trial by this Friday, Senators were twitching in their seats. Democrats teased their colleague Russ Feingold for voting with the Republicans, and the President's lawyer Greg Craig traded laughs with staunch Republican Don Nickles. During a break, the G.O.P.'s Strom Thurmond, 96, drew clementines from his pockets and, with a flirtatious grin, passed them to Cheryl Mills and Nicole Seligman...
...avenge a lost battle--unless, of course, you have already won the war. Daschle and his 43 Democratic colleagues may have failed in their attempt to dismiss the case against Bill Clinton, but in that vote and four others, Democrats held together (well, except for the free-spirited Russ Feingold), making it virtually certain that the G.O.P. will never get the 67 votes needed to convict. Though Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal will be deposed this week, even stalwart Republicans privately admit that the trial is basically dead. It's just that the body...
MOST MAVERICK SENATOR Then: Edmund Ross (6) of Kansas, whose vote to acquit was the trial breaker Now: Russ Feingold (7) of Wisconsin, only Democrat to break ranks in early votes...
BEST ADS OF '98 Republican Mark Neumann ridicules Senator Russ Feingold's (D) support of methane testing by showing a fuddy-duddy scientist running around a field trying to catch cow farts in jars. Neumann lost, but this hilarious ad is a winner...
MADISON, Wisc.: Is Mr. Smith alive and well and in Wisconsin? Russ Feingold, co-author of that quixotic campaign finance reform bill, won re-election Tuesday despite holding himself to the bill's strictures: no soft money and no thinly veiled "issue advocacy" ads. He won despite the fact that Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, looking to kill McCain-Feingold while it slept, pumped GOP party money into the coffers of challenger Mark Neumann until Neumann was outspending Feingold...