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I am still concerned about the risk of setting a precedent for opposition majorities in Congress to remove presidents for purely political reasons.
The administration developed a proposal that eventually passed both houses of Congress by large majorities and was signed into law on October 26.
What happened in the Senate, the papers report, is that in successive votes to force floor consideration of two campaign reform measures--one simply a ban of the unregulated campaign use of donations made to the national political parties ("soft money"), the other a broader bill that also would have tightened rules about "issue ads" that actually function in support of particular candidates--the pro forces achieved slim majorities, but fell short of the 60 votes required to cut off a filibuster against the measures.
Results that don't fit the theory, such as the defeat of Matt Fong in the California Senate race, have simply been ignored--as has the fact that the Republicans retained their majorities in both houses.
Bolstering that average were hefty majorities of two normally pacific groups: women (74 percent) and Democrats (81 percent).