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UP NEXT: CAMPAIGN REFORM: Sometime after Congress...

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UP NEXT: CAMPAIGN REFORM: Sometime after Congress returns from its Easter recess, it will face the next Clinton Administration legislative push: campaign finance reform. Within two to three weeks, insiders say, Democrats will introduce legislation eliminating one of the most lucrative sources of campaign funds: the largely unregulated donations made by groups and wealthy individuals directly to political parties. The donations, which unlike contributions to individual candidates have no limits, have dominated party fund raising and have fed voter outrage over special interests’ influence in Washington. The Administration is said to be looking for a way to soften the blow to party campaign coffers, perhaps by raising the limit on individual donations to candidates.

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