on real issues and answer questions about things we care about. We could vote them in based not on who could build the bigger war chest but on those things that we see as important (Los Angeles Times, October 1999). The bill to ban this soft money was defeated after reformers failed twice to break the necessary 60 votes to kill the filibuster. So the ban on soft money will not go through. Reformers say they will not give up but Senate Majority leader Trent Lott says, This issue is dead for the year (Los Angeles Times, October 1999)....
