What about the consultant who says or implies that the client can only soft dollar its bill with its affiliated broker-dealer and no other firm?
Though both support the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill banning soft money, Clinton supported public financing for campaigns, while Lazio criticized it as "welfare for politicians" and said a candidate's ability to raise money should be viewed as a measure of support.
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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 fact is we haven't been able to get a patients' bill of rights because soft money has gummed up the works, " he said on "CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer".
His interest in overhauling the campaign-finance system continued with his support of the McCain-Feingold Senate bill, which introduced bans on soft money to national parties.
The Scottish Conservatives' justice spokesman Bill Aitken said community sentences were an example of "soft touch Scotland".
After nearly two weeks of debate, 57 senators (44 Democrats and 13 Republicans) voted in favour of preserving the soft money ban if the Supreme Court rules other parts of the bill unconstitutional.
The Shays-Meehan bill would, for the most part, ban unregulated, soft money donations to the major parties.
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.
As would the McCain-Feingold bill, Shays-Meehan would for the most part ban unregulated, soft-money donations to the major parties.
The "anti-Bloomberg" bill simply assures consumers freedom of choice on what food and what size soft drinks they want to buy, and which restaurants they want to patronize.
Like the McCain-Feingold bill in the Senate, Shays-Meehan would ban unregulated, "soft money" donations to the major parties.
In a sudden about-turn, Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, refused to promulgate a bill that would have legalised the possession of small quantities of drugs, both hard and soft.
In the summer of 1975 a Harvard junior, Bill Gates, drove to Albuquerque and with his friend Paul Allen started a company, Micro-Soft, to write an operating system called BASIC for the Altair 8800.
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