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Nothing sinister was at work. Soft money had hardly been minted in those days; lawmakers simply wanted to reconcile the wording in two different statutes. "They weren't trying to do anything sneaky," says Fred Wertheimer, former head of Common Cause. But even if the loophole was opened by accident, Reno and her lawyers concluded, the restrictions did not apply to the hundreds of millions of dollars in unregulated, soft-money contributions...
With the exception of a few brave souls, the law- makers who would need to rewrite the laws have the greatest interest in preserving them. So whatever pleasure the Republicans felt in watching the White House thrashing was offset by fear that Senator Fred Thompson's investigation of campaign finance would wind up biting them too. After all, the Republicans raised $200 million more than the Democrats last year without Air Force One or any presidential bedrooms to proffer. And while Bill Clinton may have sold tickets to his radio address, a minority whip called Newt Gingrich in 1990 offered...
...donation will fund "operations to expand our capacity to attract more people and print more papers," said Fred Ellis, manager of Spare Change's Mass. Ave. office...
...David Ellwood did a splendid job in his three years as academic dean," said Joseph S. Nye, dean of the Kennedy School. "Fred Schauer has large shoes to fill but he is an excellent scholar who enjoys the full respect of his colleagues...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Turning up the heat on a new wave of al legations of campaign finance improprieties on both sides of the aisle, Senate Republicans reversed course by agreeing to allow Senator Fred Thompson's campaign finance investigation to look into "soft money" donations. Fearing that any probe woul d wind up biting them as well, the GOP leadership had previously rammed through a deal that would limit Thompson to investigating only "illegal activities" that took place during the 1996 race. The Republican turnaround was spurred by the growing re alization that, while the White House fundraising scandal certainly looks...