It looks like something good is coming out of the Enron debacle. The Republicans can't fight too hard to defeat it. It looks like it will pass both houses.

House Passes Campaign Finance Bill

The House early today approved long-stalled legislation aimed at squeezing special interest money out of politics, marking a critical step toward enactment of the most far- reaching overhaul of campaign finance laws in a quarter-century. The House vote to pass the bill was 240 to 189, with 41 Republicans joining all but 12 Democrats in supporting it.

The bill, which would curb unlimited "soft money" contributions and restrict electioneering ads by outside groups, now goes to the Senate, which passed a somewhat different version of the legislation last year.
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Still earlier in the day, Fleischer had suggested that Bush deserves credit for any bill that passes. "If campaign finance reform is enacted into law, I believe that you can thank President George W. Bush, because he changed the dynamic of how this phony debate has finally ended in Washington, D.C.," Fleischer said.
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Bush has been fighting this tooth and nail and now he is taking credit for it?!?! The scum-sucking swine. Ask me how I really feel about this lying piece of shit. Sorry, shit is too good to be compared to Bush.

Daschle Vows Prompt Action in Senate on Soft Money Ban

Just hours after the House approved an overhaul of the way campaigns are financed, putting the nation's political system at the brink of its most sweeping change in a generation, the Senate majority leader Tom Daschle promised today that his chamber would take quick action on the measure.

"This is going to be an historic week in the country and in Congress in particular," Senator Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota, said at a news briefing. "Just as soon as the bill comes back to the Senate, I will ask unanimous consent to bring it up here and, under a time agreement, to pass it and put it on the president's desk."
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