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Next for CFR Backers: Fixing the Presidential Campaign System

By Norman Ornstein
Roll Call Contributing Writer
June 25, 2003, Midnight

Campaign finance reform is back in the news, as the Supreme Court has put arguments for the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 on a fast track, and ruled in a related case on limits to nonprofits’ contributions to candidates in a way that provided encouragement to reform supporters.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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The clear expectation is Congress will get very little done this election year. But what does get accomplished, at least in the high-profile areas, will largely be the handiwork of an elite group of staffers — who combine policy expertise, political acumen and the trust of their lawmaker bosses to drive much of the legislative agenda.

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