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Smelling blood, House Speaker Dennis Hastert is rallying opponents around a rival measure introduced by G.O.P. Representative Robert Ney, which caps soft-money donations to national parties at $75,000. Ney has already succeeded in peeling off Wynn, along with about half a dozen G.O.P. Representatives who supported the Shays-Meehan bill in the past...
...keep 56 members of the Hispanic and Congressional Black Caucuses from defecting, the bill's chief sponsors, Republican Christopher Shays and Democrat Martin Meehan, added last-minute sweeteners to allow these groups to raise some soft money for their get-out-the-vote programs. But House Speaker Dennis Hastert had managed to drain support for the Shays-Meehan bill with a substitute drafted by GOP Rep. Robert Ney which capped soft-money donations to national parties at $75,000. With the outcome too close to call, Hastert ordered the Rules Committee to rig the floor procedure for considering the measure...
...Thursday morning. Knowing they probably couldn't survive the fusillade, Gephardt mobilized to defeat the "rule," which governed floor activity. He could count on practically all Democrats supporting a procedural vote the party's leadership wanted. But to win, some Republicans had to be convinced to defy their Speaker, a heresy Hastert wouldn't forget. McCain dialed up the pressure. At one point he hauled seven GOP congressmen into Gephardt's Capitol office and, looking each one in the eye, asked if they'd "vote against the rule." Each said...
...dinner on Wednesday night, Summers introduced a familiar face in former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who he worked with during his time at the Treasury Department...
...want people to be able to identify with at least one speaker over the summer and say ‘Hey, I could do that,’” Rose says...