Word: soft
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...bane of the Capital Hill establishment. Two years ago, Feingold, along with senior Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), introduced a remarkable piece of legislation, meant to effectively abolish the corrupt and undemocratic system of campaign finance. The McCain-Feingold Bill would limit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions and ban "soft money," the unlimited contributions to political parties which are then diverted to individual campaigns. For the last two years, however, McCain-Feingold has been ignored by the United States Congress, left to languish in some subcommittee...
...Soft money contributions are "making a mockery of the principle of one man, one vote," Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.), told a crowd of over 100 last night in a speech urging campaign finance reform...
Feingold gained notice during the 1996 Senate election for refusing to accept soft money and just barely winning against aggressive opponents. As a senator, he has a reputation for promoting campaign finance reform...
...Money fundamentally distorts the democraticprocess," Bradley told Dartmouth students at adiscussion in a wood-paneled room at the campus'Sanborn library. Bradley said he would supportlegislation that would ban soft-moneycontributions...
Junior Jessie Amberg then sent a soft grounderto second and beat the throw to first as Brown'sJulia Tudicello double-clutched on her throw.McKendry rounded third and alertly broke for home.Brown first baseman Alyson Grant threw home, butMcKendry slid under Rowbottom's tag to send thegame into extra innings...