Campaign Reform
* Re “Senate Votes Kill Campaign Finance Reform for Year,” Oct. 20:
We are most grateful to Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russell D. Feingold (D-Wis.) for their bipartisan effort to ban unregulated soft money from national political campaigns. The Senate vote to ban, 53 to 47 in favor, was a high-water mark toward the 60 to 40 needed to cut off debate. We encourage future such efforts to make elections battlegrounds of ideas, not of dollar bills.
JAMES GOODWIN
FRANCES GOODWIN
Seal Beach
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* As we approach the end of the century and millennium, we reflect on the best, worst, etc. in a variety of categories.
I nominate the Republican leadership of the U.S. Senate as the legislative body who least “gets it” in not only this century but this millennium.
ROBERT D. McCONNELL
Manhattan Beach
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