"Lott doesn't want to fuss with campaign finance anymore," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "There's just no benefit for the GOP to take it up -- their constituencies don't care anymore." Either that, or they're not rich enough to get Lott's attention.
Campaign Finance Reform Follies
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WASHINGTON: In Congress, Republican Christopher Shays and Democrat Marty Meehan laid one more beating on the dead political horse that is campaign finance reform Thursday. And though the Shays-Meehan bill passed the House by a rousing 252-179 vote -- surviving repeated attempts by the GOP leadership to water it down -- the bill is going to die in the same place that its Senate equivalent did earlier this year: right at Trent Lott's feet.