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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19940929
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IT WAS NEVER going to be easy to get incumbent members of Congress to alter a system of paying for political campaigns under which they, after all, had done rather well. But only Luigi Pirandello or Samuel Beckett could have conceived a script as absurd as the one now being written. And only Agatha Christie could have produced as long a list of possible suspects for the role of killer of reform. If campaign finance reform dies, there will be many fingerprints on the murder weapon.

It is close to death now. House and Senate Democrats last night reached a compromise that they hoped would ...

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