House sends campaign finance reform bill to Senate
WAP2002021426 - WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Rep. Chris Shays, D-Conn., speaks about the Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill on Feb. 14, 2002, on Capitol Hill, the day after the bill passed. The bill now goes to the Senate. To the right of Shays are Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., Rep. Marty Sheehan, D-Mass., and Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo. rlw/Roger L. Wollenberg UPI
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For all their righteous bluster, however, campaign finance reform advocates may have sent the cause of reform spinning off in the wrong direction. One reform that might have real teeth would be a new requirement that congressional committees, when they pu
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