The Shays-Meehan bill would, for the most part, ban unregulated, soft money donations to the major parties.
Those rules broke apart a package of adjustments to the Shays-Meehan bill opposed by the chamber's GOP leadership.
The House approved earlier versions of the Shays-Meehan bill in 1998 and 1999.
That's where Ney and Wynn feel they can knock down McCain and the Shays-Meehan bill, at least as far as undecided House members are concerned.
An odd assortment of outside groups agree, including the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, which have aligned to combat the Shays-Meehan bill.
The Shays-Meehan bill would ban soft money -- unregulated, unlimited funds to political parties -- and it would raise the limit on hard money contributions to individual candidates.
The Shays-Meehan bill, like the McCain-Feingold legislation, would ban soft money -- unregulated, unlimited funds to political parties -- and would raise the limit on hard money contributions to individual candidates.
Campaign finance reform was derailed in the House on Thursday when lawmakers shelved consideration of the Shays-Meehan bill -- similar to the McCain-Feingold legislation passed by the Senate -- through a procedural vote.
As would the McCain-Feingold bill, Shays-Meehan would for the most part ban unregulated, soft-money donations to the major parties.
Shays-Meehan resembles the bill drafted by Republican maverick John McCain and Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, that passed the Senate in April.
Like the McCain-Feingold bill in the Senate, Shays-Meehan would ban unregulated, "soft money" donations to the major parties.
Meehan agreed, saying the Ney-Wynn bill was nothing more than a ploy to kill reform efforts.
Ney argued his bill was a "reasonable alternative" to the Shays-Meehan legislation, which he said was undergoing constant changes in language to make it more appealing to a broad swath of members.
Armey was referring to the campaign finance bill that passed the Senate in April, which mirrors the Shays-Meehan legislation.
Shays and Meehan and their supporters in the Democratic leadership urged backers of the bill to vote against the rule.
Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who has been one of the primary foes of campaign finance reform, called the Ney-Wynn bill "a step in the right direction" and said the Shays-Meehan legislation was "fundamentally un-American" because it would limit what outside groups and political parties could say close to elections.
But Ney defended his bill as a solid reform measure, and he criticized aspects of the Shays-Meehan legislation.
"We're closer than we've ever been, " said Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Massachusetts, one of the authors of a House bill that mirrors the McCain-Feingold legislation passed by the Senate in April.
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