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Feingold plans to reform campaigns and to pull the 'pork' out of budgets San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage, Jan. 5, 2001 |
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| Washington, DC (special) -- Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) predicts
that he and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) will have the votes in the next session
of Congress not only to pass a campaign finance reform bill but also to
cut off any filibuster opponents might attempt in the U.S. Senate.
In a recent letter to President-elect George W. Bush, Feingold wrote "I am absolutely convinced that the ban on party soft money will happen" and appealed for Bush to join in the bipartisan reform effort. "You have taken a different approach, but you share our recognition that the system must change," he wrote to the President-elect. "I hope you will join us in a common effort to once again give to the American people reason to have faith in our campaign finance system." The Jewish senator from Wisconsin also told Bush he is against "pork" -- the nickname given to unnecessary spending projects put into spending bills to curry favor with voters back home. "Reform of our budget process is an arena that cries out for bipartisan
attention," Feingold said in a Dec. 14 letter to Bush. "Congress has been
cramming so many pieces together into gigantic budget bills. I plan to
work with my colleagues from the other side of the aisle to introduce legislation
that would make it easier to pull pork out of those gigantic omnibus bills."
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