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...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 will happen...
Harvard will face will its first challenge starting today at the start of the annual Buzz Classic in Marietta, Ga. The Crimson will play this morning against Mercer and the University of California, and will continue tomorrow against Wisconsin and Southeast Missouri State...
...Republicans would keep it from coming to a vote. "But this time we're playing with real bullets," says G.O.P. Senator Chuck Hagel, who is sponsoring a rival bill. Senate majority leader Trent Lott has agreed to let McCain and his Democratic co-sponsor, Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, have their vote within two weeks. The House is poised to pass a similar measure, which means Congress could finally pass a bill that cuts off hundreds of millions of campaign dollars...
...state's growth was fueled by the migration of 21,000 immigrants, many of them Hispanic. The 2000 Census figures released last week show that Hispanics, now poised to replace African Americans as the nation's largest minority group, saw their numbers explode in Midwestern states like Wisconsin in the 1990s, while Iowa enjoyed an increase of less than 1% over that time. Vilsack wants to change that by accelerating the arrival of Hispanics and other immigrants...
After years of butting up against a Mitch McConnell filibuster in a Republican-dominated Senate, the prickly conservative from Arizona and the fighting progressive from Wisconsin have a 50-50 Senate, two weeks of floor debate and their best chance of passing their soft-money ban in years. ("Soft money" is unregulated, unlimited money funneled to candidates through political parties...