Campaign Finance Reform: Table Non-severability Amendment |
| This vote was to table (kill) the so-called non-severability amendment (Amdt. 156) to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (S. 27). Under Sen. Bill Frists (R-Tenn.) amendment, if certain provisions of the bill no matter how incidental were ever found to be unconstitutional, then all other provisions, including the crucial ban on soft money, would also immediately become null and void. Attaching a non-severability amendment to a bill is extremely rare. Tabled 57 Yea to 43 Nay. |
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Votes from the 107th and 108th Sessions of U.S. Congress.
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