Luke Melia

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January 24, 2002

1/24/02, 6 pm

Good new from Washington today. According to the NY Times article, “The advocates of overhauling the nation’s campaign finance law triumphed over the House Republican leadership today and gained enough support to force a House vote on legislation that would make the most wide-ranging change in the campaign law since the Watergate era.”

This is a topic I’ve written my representatives about and had a letter to the editor printed in Times a few months back. It’s taken a lot of clamoring of that sort to overcome special interests to even get a real debate and vote on this bill. And that, poetically, is proof of it’s necessity.

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