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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:59:17 -0500
Subject: McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Bill - The John Birch Society Alert Network
Message-ID: 200103221410.JAA01202@mail.mail

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Upcoming Vote on S.27, the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Bill

Action Needed: Email, phone, or fax your senators immediately in opposition to the McCain-Feingold bill and any other bills, such as Chuck Hagel's S.22 Open and Accountable Campaign Financing Act of
2001, which abridge our God-given freedom of speech.

Status: On March 19th the Senate began two weeks of debate on S.27. A vote is likely by the end of March or early April.

Summary: "McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation would regulate political speech by ordinary citizens, yet allow the
major media to 'report' political news with any bias they choose. The dangerous McCain-Feingold 'Campaign Finance' legislation is on the legislative fast track despite the fact that it is designed to make an end run around the First Amendment. The bill would place the most basic organized expression of political opinion under strict federal
regulatory controls. These controls would be similar to the reporting requirements, disclosure rules, and contribution limits
required of federal candidates' campaign committees, and would put a serious chill on free expression in the United States."
From "McCain-Feingold Media Monopoly," an article by Thomas R.
Eddlem in the March 26th issue of The New American.

Resources:
1. "McCain-Feingold Media Monopoly" by Thomas R. Eddlem is available
at:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2001

/03-26-2001/vo17no07_mccain.htm

2. The full text of S.27 can be read by going to the following web site and searching for S.27:
http://thomas.loc.gov/

3. The 40 co-sponsors of S.27 in the Senate are shown at:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?

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