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Bush-Gore debate centers on plans for budget surplus

...I will never let you down." Gore also promised that, as his first action in office, he would sign the campaign finance reform bill co-sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Bush's main opponent in the Republican primaries. Gore...

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Politics
Analysis

...drinking water would affect his decision if a campaign finance reform bill reaches his desk. "We are not sitting around...the White House. "Can you imagine vetoing a campaign finance reform bill in the midst of a big tax cut and environmental...

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News
'From my cold, dead hands'

...the group's director of federal affairs. Other speakers Saturday night took aim at the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, which would limit political advertising by groups like the NRA within two months of an election. NRA Executive...

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Open Forum

...instance, his last pro-life voting record was only 85 percent. According to the MCCL web site, he voted for a campaign finance reform bill that MCCL opposed because it would have severely limited the free speech rights of groups such as MCCL before...

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Opinion
Sen. Hagel's alternative

...Mr. Hagel's Reform Ruse," ripping a campaign finance reform bill sponsored by Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska...individuals. Still, the decision to veto a major campaign finance reform bill--as his father did before him--would...

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Opinion
Wellstone amendment seen as setback to campaign finance reform

WASHINGTON -- Proponents of a campaign-finance-reform bill suffered a setback Monday when the Senate passed an amendment that toughens restrictions on certain television ads but faces serious...

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News
Open Forum

...your representative. There has been much talk about the recent passage of the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Bill in the United States Senate. The bill is an amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. It aims...

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Opinion
Businesses quietly root for reform to limit 'soft money' donations

...how did a lobbyist for a major entertainment company react when asked recently about the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, which had just passed the Senate? He flashed a surprising grin and offered an enthusiastic thumbs up. In...

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Business
Nothing comes easy for Gephardt

...plunge into a round of early morning to late night meetings aimed at shoring up Democratic support for the campaign finance reform bill. As so often before in his career, he walked away with something less than victory but better than an outright...

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Opinion
Firing the piano player

...player. Lest we forget (and a majority of the House last week apparently did when it passed its version of a campaign finance reform bill), the Constitution says in the First Amendment: ``Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom...

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