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=lost to johnson 2016 koch, dirty trick outside group coordination campaign?--> #partyoftraitors=<div></div><div>artl 5 convention feingold</div><div><a href="https://www.acslaw.org/projects/article-v/">https://www.acslaw.org/projects/article-v/</a></div><div>
</div><div><div>Overview</div><div>Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides two avenues for amending the Constitution. One of those avenues – an Article V Convention – has never before been used, in part because it could put the entire Constitution on the chopping block. Factions of the far Right, however, are now actively working to orchestrate such a convention, with the goal of radically rewriting the U.S. Constitution to achieve partisan outcomes. If the outcomes of a mock convention held by factions of the Right in 2016 are any indication, an Article V Convention could see amendments aimed at  disassembling modern government and the century-old New Deal consensus, returning the country to the troubling, splintered times when the federal government could do little to provide for national welfare or defense. This could include amendments to repeal the federal income tax, to require  onerous supermajorities akin to the filibuster to raise other taxes, and to enable state legislatures to nullify federal laws and regulations. Given current political dynamics, it’s easy to also imagine amendments to ban abortion and enshrine extreme interpretations of the 2nd Amendment. ACS is actively educating the public about the dangers of this radical effort and the potential for it to send this country into a constitutional crisis even more dire than January 6th.</div><div>
</div><div>Publications</div><div>The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It</div><div>by Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville</div><div>
</div><div>Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution’s amendment mechanism—the nation’s first ever—has inched through statehouses. Delegates, like those in Philadelphia two centuries ago, would exercise nearly unlimited authority to draft changes to our fundamental law, potentially altering anything from voting and free speech rights to regulatory and foreign policy powers. Such a watershed moment would present great danger, and for some, great power.</div><div>
</div><div>In this important book, Feingold and Prindiville distill extensive legal and historical research and examine the grave risks inherent in this effort. But they also consider the role of constitutional amendment in modern life. Though many focus solely on judicial and electoral avenues for change, such an approach is at odds with a cornerstone ideal of the Founding: that the People make constitutional law, directly. In an era defined by faction and rejection of long-held norms, The Constitution in Jeopardy examines the nature of constitutional change and asks urgent questions about what American democracy is, and should be.</div><div>
</div><div>In the News</div><div>The New York Times: A Second Constitutional Convention? Some Republicans Want to Force One</div><div>September 4, 2022</div><div>The Guardian: Ruling the US supreme court isn’t enough. The right wants to amend the constitution</div><div>September 19, 2022</div><div>Audio</div><div>Broken Law Podcast</div><div>Episode 68: The Constitution Is In Jeopardy</div><div>
</div><div>Twitter Space</div><div>Twitter Space: The Constitution in Jeopardy w/Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville</div><div>
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</div><div>American Constitution Society Podcasts · Twitter Space: The Constitution in Jeopardy w/Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville</div><div>Recent Events</div><div>NOVEMBER 2, 2022</div><div>
</div><div>Conversation with ACS President Russ Feingold on “The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do about It”</div><div>4:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Eastern Time</div><div>Barrister’s Hall, Boston, Massachusetts</div><div>
</div><div>OCTOBER 11, 2022</div><div>
</div><div>ACS Philadelphia: The Constitution In Jeopardy with Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville</div><div>12:30 – 1:30 PM, Eastern Time</div><div>Head House Books, Philadelphia, PA</div><div>
</div><div>OCTOBER 3, 2022</div><div>
</div><div>American Constitution Society Presents: A Conversation with Senator Feingold</div><div>12:15 – 1:20 PM, Central Time</div><div>University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL</div></div><div>=</div><div>=</div><div>an 10 22</div><div>a movement among far-right MAGA Republicans and Tea Party members is hoping that if enough state legislatures get on board, there will be a constitutional convention — one that would rewrite the U.S. Constitution and give it a MAGA makeover. And the movement, according to The Guardian, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/19/steve-bannon-us-constitution-tea-party-republican-state-legislatures" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a major ally in Steve Bannon</a>, host of the “War Room” podcast, former White House chief strategist in the Trump Administration and former executive chairman at Breitbart News.
Journalist Ed Pilkington, in an article published by The Guardian on October 19, reports, “Bannon has devoted recent episodes of his online show ‘The War Room’ to a well-funded operation which has stealthily gained ground over the past two years. Backed by billionaire donors and corporate interests, it aims to persuade state legislatures to call a constitutional convention in the hope of baking far-right conservative values into the supreme law of the land. The goal is, in essence, to turn the country into a permanent conservative nation irrespective of the will of the American people.”

Pilkington notes that the constitutional convention that MAGA Republicans have in mind “would promote policies that would limit the size and scope of the federal government, set ceilings on or even abolish taxes, free corporations from regulations, and impose restrictions on government action in areas such as abortion, guns and immigration.”

READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/a-far-right-movement-to-rewrite-the-constitution-has-immense-potential-for-lasting-harm-author/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;" /><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/right-wing/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;" /><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/a-far-right-movement-to-rewrite-the-constitution-has-immense-potential-for-lasting-harm-author/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">A far-right movement to 'rewrite the Constitution' has 'immense potential for lasting harm': historian</a>

In September, Bannon told “War Room” listeners, “This is another line of attack strategically. You now have a political movement that understands we need to go after the administrative state.” And Pilkington explains what Bannon means by <a href="https://americasvoice.news/video/VSyRTWNpPvw5UwL/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">“administrative state.”
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“By ‘administrative state,’ Bannon was referring to the involvement of the federal government and Congress in central aspects of modern American life,” Pilkington observes. “That includes combating the climate crisis, setting educational standards and fighting health inequities.”

One of the Tea Party activists who is hoping for a constitutional convention is Mark Meckler, founder of <a href="https://conventionofstates.com/states-that-have-passed-the-convention-of-states-article-v-application" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Convention of States Action</a> (COSA). During a “War Room” appearance, Meckler told Bannon, “We need to say constitutionally, ‘No, the federal government cannot be involved in education, or healthcare, or energy, or the environment’…. The problem is, any time the administration swings back to Democrat — or radical progressive, or Marxist, which is what they are — we are going to lose the gains. So, you do the structural fix.”

Pilkington points out that “by cementing the policies into the U.S. Constitution, they would become largely immune to electoral challenge.” The journalist outlines two ways in which the U.S. Constitution, under Article V, “can be revised.”

READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/right-wing/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">19 states have joined a new right-wing effort to remake the Constitution with their fringe ideas</a>

“In practice, all 27 amendments that have been added over the past 244 years have come through the first route: a Congress-led process whereby two-thirds of both the U.S. House and Senate have to approve changes followed by ratification by three-quarters of the states,” the journalist explains. “Meckler, working alongside other powerful interest groups and wealthy right-wing megadonors, is gunning for Article V’s second route — one that has never been tried before. It gives state legislatures the power to call a constitutional convention of their own, should two-thirds of all 50 states agree. The state-based model for rewriting the U.S. Constitution is perhaps the most audacious attempt yet by hard-right Republicans to secure what amounts to conservative minority rule in which a minority of lawmakers representing less-populated rural states dictate terms to the majority of Americans.”

Former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold is warning that the efforts of groups like COSA need to be taken seriously. Along with Peter Prindiville of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Feingold addresses this threat in their book <a href="https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/russ-feingold/the-constitution-in-jeopardy/9781541701526/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">“The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It.”</a>

Feingold told The Guardian, “Our goal is not to scare people, but to alert them that there is a movement on the far right that is quietly getting itself to a point where it will be almost impossible to stop a convention being called.”

READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/todays-republicans-are-fascist-conservative-activist-blasts-gops-authoritarian-moves/" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">'Today’s Republicans are fascist': Conservative activist slams authoritarian GOP candidates</a></div><div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">vs Feingold?</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://democracychronicles.org/lawsuit-nra/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://democracychronicles.org/lawsuit-nra/</a>from the <a href="https://campaignlegal.org/press-releases/lawsuit-nra-illegally-coordinated-35-million-campaign-spending" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Campaign Legal Center</a>:Today, Campaign Legal Center Action (CLC Action) <a href="https://bit.ly/2ZN9zGO" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">filed suit</a> on behalf of Giffords against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for failing to announce any action against the National Rifle Association (NRA) for using shell corporations to coordinate campaign spending with seven federal candidates spanning three election cycles from 2014-2018. The lawsuit was filed two days before President Trump addresses the NRA’s annual convention for the third year in a row – the only time in American history a president has done so.The NRA’s complicated scheme had the effect of evading campaign contribution limits and shielding millions of dollars of political spending – including up to $25 million coordinated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign – from public scrutiny. The Trace first reported on the NRA’s scheme.Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Giffords filed four complaints with the FEC to address these violations. The FEC is the independent regulatory agency tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws in federal elections, the agency routinely deadlocks and fails to reach the required four votes necessary to open an investigation. Today, Giffords is asserting its right of action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the 120-day period expired in which the FEC was legally required to respond.“Our elections are awash in secret cash, and the federal agency charged with enforcing our nation’s election laws is asleep on the job,” said Trevor Potter, president of CLC, and a former Republican Chairman of the FEC. “Campaign finance laws are supposed to limit the influence of money in our politics. For our system to function properly, the FEC needs to enforce the laws that preserve the independence of campaigns and limit the influence of well-funded special interests.”“When the FEC doesn’t do its job, groups like the NRA are able to get around the rules designed to limit the influence of money on our democracy,” said Brendan Fischer, director, federal reform at CLC. “The FEC’s failure to enforce the law sends a message to wealthy special interests that they can push the legal envelope and get away with it.”“The FEC is supposed to be the nation’s election watchdog, but in this case it didn’t bite, bark, or even whimper,” said Adam Skaggs, Chief Counsel, Giffords Law Center. “Instead, it turned a blind eye while the NRA’s leadership made clear it’s more interested in handing bags of cash to candidates who will carry its water than following American laws or looking out for the interests of gun owners. In a desperate attempt to hold onto power and influence, NRA executives have flagrantly ignored our campaign finance laws and undermined the integrity of our election system. The FEC must bring illegal campaign conduct into the light of day and we are proud to join with CLC in calling on it to uphold the laws that protect the legitimacy of our democracy.”<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ4uXIRhxRQ&feature=youtu.be" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Watch our video</a>, which explains the underlying story behind the NRA’s scheme.Campaign finance law allows outside groups like the NRA to make unlimited expenditures supporting candidates only if the expenditures are completely independent of those candidates. To protect this independence, the FEC has rules prohibiting coordination between outside groups and campaigns, which include restrictions on how a vendor may work for both a candidate and an outside group supporting that candidate. Otherwise, the common vendor can act as a conduit to funnel strategic information to the outside group, and then that group’s expenditures are no longer independent.The lawsuit implicates the NRA’s spending in support of the following seven candidates:<ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px 40px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Matt Rosendale (2018 campaign for U.S. Senate in Montana)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Josh Hawley (2018 campaign for U.S. Senate in Missouri)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Donald Trump (2016 campaign for President of the United States)</li><li style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Ron Johnson (2016 campaign for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Thom Tillis (2014 campaign for U.S. Senate in North Carolina)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Cory Gardner (2014 campaign for U.S. Senate in Colorado)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Tom Cotton (2014 campaign for U.S. Senate in Arkansas)</li></ul>You can see the full video here:</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-weight: 400;">=</div></div>2021 acs prez
<a href="https://www.acslaw.org/person/russ-feingold/">https://www.acslaw.org/person/russ-feingold/</a>=fallout from President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen’s plea deal and former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s guilty verdict continues to grow, could President Trump be next? We speak about the possibility of impeachment with Democratic Congressmember Al Green, who introduced articles of impeachment against Trump last year, and Ron Fein, legal director at Free Speech for People. He is the co-author of the book “The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump.”polarysis:
<span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> <span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">He went on to make a number of highly regarded documentaries, and in 2004 a Republican political operative noticed that the TV ads for his <span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-style="font-style" italic="italic" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Fahrenheit 9/11 <span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">were the most effective political ads that year, so the operative Floyd Brown (who helped daddy Bush get elected with the racist Willie Horton ad [paid for by direct mail scam?]), said gee we need some ads like that, so I guess we need to make a movie as a kind of afterthought/byproduct. The resulting <span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-style="font-style" italic="italic" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Hillary the Movie<span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> was such a blatant hit job (not sure if it claimed as others did that the Clintons murdered their close friend Vince Foster, or that they were smuggling guns and cocaine through a small airport in Arkansas [that was the Scaife team?]). In any case, the FEC rightly said you can't show this movie, even pay per view, 30? 60 days before the election, as per the laws (created after Watergate, but strengthened in the bi-partisan [hence the name] McCain-Feingold law  [gutted? By McConnell the implacable foe of campaign finance law; Feingold himself  taken out by ].Koch network super-PAC launches ad buys in Wisconsin, NevadaBY LISA HAGEN - 05/02/16 10:56 PM EDT  A top Koch network group on Monday launched seven-figure ad buys in Wisconsin and Nevada attacking the Democratic candidates running in competitive Senate races.Freedom Partners Action Fund, a super-PAC that spearheads the conservative donor network helmed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, released a $2 million TV and digital ad buy in Wisconsin knocking former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) over the opioid over-prescription scandal at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center.The ad, titled “The Real Story,” featured VA whistleblower Ryan Honl saying that Feingold received a memo about the issue in 2009 and blamed him that “nothing was done.”“Russ Feingold ignored veterans concerns while veterans were dying at the facility,” Honl said in the ad.Feingold’s campaign hit back calling the ad “false” and knocked his rival Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) over veterans’ issues.
“Sen. Johnson failed to protect our veterans, so instead of accepting responsibility, he and his allies have blamed his own staff and actively politicized a tragedy to the tune of over $2 million in dark money attack ads,” spokesman Michael Tyler said in a statement.
“If Johnson’s hands were clean, he’d demand that Freedom Partners take down this misleading ad. But don't expect much from a senator who's been content to let billionaires and outside interests bully Wisconsinites to distract from his own failed record."
This isn’t the first time outside groups have weighed in on this issue.
VoteVets.org, a progressive veterans group, launched a radio ad campaign in February accusing Johnson of ignoring whistleblower warnings about the VA issues. A month earlier, conservative outside group Wisconsin Alliance for Reform released a radio ad also accusing Feingold for not addressing the issues.
Feingold and Johnson are locked in what is considered one of the most competitive Senate races this cycle.
Freedom Partners also launched a $1 million TV and digital ad buy hitting former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto (D) and dubbing her “another special interest politician.”
The ads blasted Cortez Masto for hiring a Washington, D.C., law firm during Nevada’s foreclosure crisis and accused the firm of making "millions on the mortgage settlements" as well as donating to her campaign.
“Catherine Cortez Masto could have done the job taxpayers were paying her to do, but, instead, she used the housing crisis to reward political cronies in Washington, D.C., with a lucrative contract,” Freedom Partners spokesman Bill Riggs said in a statement. “Cortez Masto got campaign contributions, her friends got millions of dollars, and Nevada got another special-interest politician.”
Cortez Masto’s campaign pushed back on the ads and called them “false attacks.” The campaign also took aim at Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) and tied him to Wall Street. 
“Washington Republicans are lying about Catherine Cortez Masto’s record because they know as Nevada’s next Senator, she will focus on solving problems for Nevada families, not pushing their extreme agenda,” spokesman Zach Hudson said in a statement. “The truth is: as Nevada’s Attorney General, Catherine Cortez Masto held the Big Banks accountable and helped deliver $1.9 billion in relief to Nevadans.”
“Congressman Heck took more than $300,000 from Wall Street after he sponsored a bill to give tax breaks to Big Banks – the same Big Banks that gave out bad loans and caused Nevada’s foreclosure crisis,” he added.
Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.), the establishment favorite, and 2010 GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle are both running for the GOP nomination as they seek retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) seat.
Freedom Partners has expanded their involvement in Senate races after launching ad buys in Ohio attacking former Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland. He will face off against vulnerable GOP Sen. Rob Portman.2010 aspen/koch 1.6$m ~ dems incumbent state reps, got 80% incl Feingold ktm===rematch:By Jessica Mason

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican, is scrambling to hold

off Democratic challenger Russ Feingold in a race that will help

determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. But for all his claims

to "outsider" status, incumbent Johnson's campaign is being driven by

millions in outside spending by industry front groups, national

Republican PACs and right-wing dark money groups, including the Koch

brothers' Americans for Prosperity.

With an empty seat at the U.S. Supreme Court and public pressure mounting to overturn the Court's Citizens United decision,

which open the door to unlimited spending by nominally "independent"

Super PACs and dark money nonprofits, the stakes could not be higher for

the Kochs and their cronies who have worked for decades to undermine

disclosure rules and limits on political spending.

<h2>Flood of Undisclosed Dark Money Enters Race More than a Year in Advance</h2>

Johnson's campaign <a href="http://elections.wispolitics.com/2016/04/memo-johnson-raised-21-million-in-first.html" target="blank">reported raising $2.1 million</a> in the first quarter of 2016, while Feingold's campaign <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/ron-johnson-russ-feingold-race-back-in-the-spotlight-b99702255z1-374913011.html" target="blank">raised $3.4 million</a>.

Those totals don't account for the whopping $2.7 million that special

interest groups have already spent supporting Johnson, according to

newspaper reports.

Some of the money is being spent on positive ads to bump up Johnson's

name recognition in the state. Johnson who holds telephonic town hall

meetings from Washington, D.C., had his name recognition between <a href="https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2016/01/28/new-marquette-law-school-poll-finds-tight-races-in-wisconsin-presidential-primaries/" target="_blank">30-40 percent</a>

said Wisconsin pollster Charles Franklin. In the Senate, Johnson is the

Chair of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

On the flip side no outside money has been spent supporting Feingold, who just released his <a href="http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/russ-feingold-launches-first-ad-of-senate-campaign/article_84712b77-8972-5ca1-842c-f992cd480cf7.html" target="_blank">first campaign ad</a>

last week. Feingold who held the Senate seat until 2010, is best known

for his role in working with Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to pass the 2002

Bi-Partisan Campaign Reform Act (also known as McCain-Feingold), as

well as for defending civil liberties by voting against the USA PATRIOT

Act.

In this race, Feingold has challenged Johnson to limit outside

spending by taking a pledge to donate 50 percent of any outside ad's

cost to the charity of the opponent's choice. U.S. Senator Elizabeth

Warren (D-MA) and her opponent Scott Brown took a similar pledge in 2012

which discouraged outside money. So far, Johnson has declined.

<h2>Americans for Prosperity Spends Big on Kochs' "Model Legislator"</h2>

Back in April 2013, Johnson <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/big-money-the-koch-brothers-and-me-107225?o=3" target="_blank">attended a Koch seminar at</a>

the luxurious Renaissance Esmeralda Resort in Indian Wells, California,

rubbing elbows with big money donors who mused about whether Koch

funding was a viable alternative to the Republican Party itself.

He was described as the Kochs' "<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/big-money-the-koch-brothers-and-me-107225?o=3" target="blank">model legislator</a>," reports Politico's Ken Vogel who infiltrated the summit. Koch Industries has been the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00032546&newMem=N&recs=20" target="blank">8th largest contributor</a> to Ron Johnson throughout his six-year term, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Now the Koch's are coming to his aid. On April 6, 2016, Americans for

Prosperity (AFP), the Kochs' "grassroots" 501(c)(4) nonprofit, launched

a $1.1 million dollar ad campaign praising Ron Johnson's <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/big-money-the-koch-brothers-and-me-107225_Page3.html#.VxT7gxNViko" target="blank">"vision," </a>which was reinforced by a canvassing push by AFP volunteers in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/04/americans-for-prosperity-launches-1-million-campaign-touting-u-s-sen-ron-johnson/" target="blank">seven cities</a>. As a "social welfare" nonprofit, AFP is not required to disclose its donors.

<h2>Club for Growth Spends Big</h2>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Club_for_Growth" target="blank">Club for Growth</a>, another right-wing 501(c)(4), has already <a href="http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-score/2015/09/club-for-growth-attacks-russ-feingold-advancing-colorado-goes-after-sen-michael-bennet-walker-out-210333" target="blank">spent $700,000</a> on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=5W7KkCMo_Kw" target="_blank">two separate ads</a>

targeting Feingold through its 527 PAC, Club for Growth Action, and

shows no signs of slowing down. The organization reportedly planned to

spend more than $2.5 million in the Wisconsin Senate race, according to <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/08/17/club-growth-spend-25-million-back-johnson-re-election-campaign/31870785/" target="_blank">USA Today</a>.

Club for Growth has been a top contributor to Ron Johnson throughout

his career. The Executive Vice-President of Club for Growth and

Assistant Treasurer of Club for Growth Action, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-pike-2ab49212" target="_blank">Chuck Pike</a>,

was previously the Chief of Staff to former U.S. Congressman Mark

Neumann in his unsuccessful Senate run against Feingold in 1998. Pike

also previously served as Vice-President of The Neumann Companies.

The Koch-backed Freedom Partners provided a $1 million grant to Club for Growth in 2014, according to its <a href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2014/453/732/2014-453732750-0c0d3665-9O.pdf" target="blank">IRS filings</a>, and Wisconsin billionaire Richard Uihlein has been Club for Growth Action's top donor in the 2016 cycle with <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00487470" target="blank">$1.5 million in contributions</a>.

AFP and Club for Growth are not the only early spenders in the race.

<h2>Secretive Front Group Wisconsin Alliance for Reform</h2>

Wisconsin Alliance for Reform is a 501(c)(4) non-profit registered in Wisconsin by <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/whois_lookup_domain_availability-registration_information-godaddy.pdf" target="blank">Lorri Pickens</a>, a long-time political operative in the state of Wisconsin who <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/lorri_pickens_linkedin.pdf" target="blank">has worked</a>

for the Kochs' AFP in the past. The group has already run three ads

attacking Feingold focusing on taxes, immigration, military spending and

"Obamacare." The group also runs the website <a href="https://www.feingoldfacts.com/" target="blank">Feingoldfacts.com</a>, which purports to provide information on "Russ Feingold's failed liberal agenda." Because the group runs phony "issue ads," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO4cbSxskfE" target="blank">like this one</a>, how much the group has spent is not yet known.

In a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race, WAR <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/03/13073/war-wisconsin-voters-big-money-streams-wisconsin-supreme-court-race-no-disclosure" target="_blank">appeared to be </a>spending

the money usually spent by Wisconsin Manufactures and Commerce and

Wisconsin Club for Growth in Supreme Court races. The U.S. Chamber of

Commerce <a href="http://www.ronjohnsonforsenate.com/blog/ron-is-endorsed-by-the-u.s.-chamber-of-commerce" target="_blank">has endorsed</a> Johnson.

<h2>Wisconsin Billionaires Richard Uihlein and Terry Kohler</h2>

Various right-wing billionaires are also readying to unload on Feingold.

Richard Uihlein, who owns a shipping supply company in Wisconsin, is almost single-handedly bankrolling two other Super PACs, <a href="http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=C00571588&tabIndex=3" target="blank">Restoration PAC</a> and <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/uihleins-spend-big-to-help-ron-johnson-defend-senate-seat-from-russ-feingold-b99589973z1-330585321.html" target="blank">Americas PAC</a>. Terry Kohler, the Wisconsin toilet magnate, contributed $50,000 to Restoration PAC.

In July 2015, well over a year before the election, Restoration PAC reportedly ran <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/money-pouring-into-Senate-race-322638532.html" target="blank">$500,000 worth of</a> TV ads in Green Bay, Madison and Milwaukee praising Johnson for his opposition to President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/restorationpac/videos/1500334006924270/?fallback=1">The ad,</a> made by infamous "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" producer Rick Reed, <a href="http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2015/jul/24/restoration-pac/barack-obama-met-iran-president-says-pac-backing-w/" target="blank">was given</a> a "Pants on Fire" rating from Politifact. A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=d_KBC_IskNY" target="blank">separate ad attacks</a> Feingold for hypothetically "rubber stamping" the deal. In January 2016, <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/459/201604149012337459/201604149012337459.pdf" target="blank">Americas PAC</a> reported spending $60,000 on radio opposing Feingold.

Terry Kohler has also established a committee called the <a href="http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=C00581934&tabIndex=1" target="_blank">Reform America Fund</a>

that may be preparing to enter the race. The committee was recently

registered by Lorri Pickens, but Scott Walker's campaign guru R.J.

Johnson has long had ties to Kohler and could be involved in any

expenditures on the billionaire's behalf.

<h2>Johnson SuperPAC Run by Former Staffer</h2>

Johnson's former Chief Strategist Mark Stephens oversees<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/former-chief-strategist-launches-pro-ron-johnson-super-pac-216353" target="_blank"> Let America Work</a>,

which is expected to be the central super PAC supporting his

re-election bid. The Super PAC has launched two ads, spending over <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=C00582700&cycle=2016" target="_blank">$400,000</a> on the race so far, mostly on negative ads against Feingold.

Johnson is also benefiting from ads recently released by the <a href="http://https://www.nrsc.org/press/digital-ad-buy-feingold-failing-to-secure-2016-04-06/" target="blank">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a>, which <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERgcUWLDnrU" target="blank">fear mongers on terrorism</a> and criticize Feingold for his PATRIOT Act vote, and the <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/361345231.html" target="_blank">Republican Party of Wisconsin</a>, which attack Feingold for Obama's foreign policy.

In a small state like Wisconsin this flood of early money is likely to have an impact.<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/04/13086/kochs-americans-prosperity-club-growth-wi-shell-save-ron-johnson">http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/04/13086/kochs-americans-prosperity-club-growth-wi-shell-save-ron-johnson</a>
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5. Sen. Russ Feingold’s Loss

Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-Wisc.) three-term tenure in the U.S. Senate as a champion of campaign finance reform <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/the-end-of-a-progressive-champion-russ-feingold-loses-to-ron-johnson.php" style="">came to an end</a> at the hands of a multi-millionaire, Tea Party-backed, self-funded candidate named Ron Johnson. It’s a bitter irony that outside groups spent nearly $2.4 million to benefit Johnson, including three-quarters of a million dollars in attack ads by the U.S. Chamber. (Feingold has demanded for years that outside groups not spend money on his behalf.) But in the end, the outside campaign proved so decisive that Sen.-elect Johnson <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/13/chamber-ron-johnson/" style="">paid a “thank you” visit</a> to his new bosses over at the Chamber in December. Feingold’s <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131057508" style="">record on reform</a>, though battered by the courts, will live on as an example of a long-standing elected official who served until the end by doing what he believed was right for his constituents and the nation. That type of courage and commitment to principles will be missed in Congress.

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold</a>

<div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en">Russell Dana Feingold, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democrat" title="Democrat" class="mw-redirect">Democrat</a>, is a former U.S. Senator from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect">Wisconsin</a>, having served January 1993 to January 2011. He was one of four Minority Deputy Whips.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-WP-0">[1]</a>

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Record_and_controversies">1 Record and controversies</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#H.R.3590_Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act.28health_care_reform.29">1.1 H.R. 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (health care reform)</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Opposition_to_President_Bush.27s_troop_.22surge.22_in_Iraq">1.2.1 Opposition to President Bush's troop "surge" in Iraq</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Iraq_War_deadline_bill">1.2.2 Iraq War deadline bill</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Legislative_Transparency_and_Accountability_Act_of_2007">1.2.3 Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Patriot_Act">1.3 Patriot Act</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Campaign_finance">1.4 Campaign finance</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#McCain-Feingold_bill">1.4.1 McCain-Feingold bill</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Public_financing_of_elections">1.4.2 Public financing of elections</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Senate_Campaign_Disclosure_Parity_Act">1.4.3 Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Government_spending">1.5 Government spending</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Bush_Censure">1.6 Bush Censure</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#2006_censure_effort">1.6.1 2006 censure effort</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#2007_move_to_censure_Bush_and_Cheney">1.6.2 2007 move to censure Bush and Cheney</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Gun_issues">1.7 Gun issues</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Reparations_for_Japanese_Latin_Americans">1.8 Reparations for Japanese Latin Americans</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Background">2.1 Background</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Senate_Elections">2.2 Senate Elections</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Senate_Career">2.3 Senate Career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#2010_election">2.4 2010 election</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Meet_the_cash_constituents">3 Meet the cash constituents</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Committees_and_affiliations">4 Committees and affiliations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Articles_and_resources">5 Articles and resources</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Related_SourceWatch_articles">5.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#References">5.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#External_resources">5.3 External resources</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-29"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites">5.3.1 Local blogs and discussion sites</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#External_articles">5.4 External articles</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-31"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#By_Senator_Russ_Feingold">5.4.1 By Senator Russ Feingold</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

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<h2>Record and controversies</h2>

<div style=" margin: 0.5em 0.75em 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: #dce8f8; border: 1px solid #5c79b5; padding: .25em .25em 0.25em .25em;">General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:U.S._legislation" title="Category:U.S. legislation">articles on legislation</a>. You can add information you find on how Russ Feingold voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Help:References" title="Help:References">cite your sources</a>!</div>

<h3>H.R. 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (health care reform)</h3>

On December 9, 2009, Senator Feingold was one of ten Democratic Senators to reach what Senate Majority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a> called a “broad agreement”<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30371.html">[1]</a>on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dpc.senate.gov/dpcdoc-sen_health_care_bill.cfm/">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.</a> The discussion focused on abandoning or greatly narrowing the public health insurance option.

In exchange, people 55-64 would be able to buy in to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Medicare" title="Medicare">Medicare</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Medicaid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Medicaid (page does not exist)">Medicaid</a> eligibility would be expanded to people within 150 percent of the federal poverty line. Senate Majority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a>'s office released a statement on the compromise:

"I asked Senators Schumer and Pryor to work with some of the most moderate and most progressive members of our diverse caucus, and tonight they have come to a consensus.  It is a consensus that includes a public option and will help ensure the American people win in two ways: one, insurance companies will face more competition, and two, the American people will have more choices. I know not all 10 Senators in the room agree on every single detail of this, nor will all 60 members of my caucus. But I know we all appreciate the hard work that these progressives and moderates have done to move this historic debate forward. I want to thank Senators Schumer, Pryor, Brown, Carper, Feingold, Harkin, Landrieu, Lincoln, Nelson and Rockefeller for working together for the greater good and never losing sight of our shared goal: making it possible for every American to afford to live a healthy life. As is long-standing practice, we do not disclose details of any proposal before the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congressional_Budget_Office" title="Congressional Budget Office">Congressional Budget Office</a> has a chance to evaluate it. We will wait for that to happen, but in the meantime, tonight we are confident." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/senate-sinks-abortion-ame_n_384846.html">[2]</a>

Feingold voted against the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq" class="mw-redirect">Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq</a> in Oct. 2002.

<div style=" margin: 0.5em 0.75em 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: #dce8f8; border: 1px solid #5c79b5; padding: .25em .25em 0.25em .25em;">For more information see the chart of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Senate_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War">U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War</a>.</div>

<h4>Opposition to President Bush's troop "surge" in Iraq</h4>

In early February of 2007, Feingold, as well as Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chris_Dodd" title="Chris Dodd" class="mw-redirect">Chris Dodd</a> (D-Conn.) threatened to oppose a newly drafted nonbinding resolution opposing George W. Bush's plans of troop escalation in Iraq, claiming that the language of the resolution was "weak." Both senators, however, supported an earlier draft, sponsored by Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden" class="mw-redirect">Joe Biden</a> (D-Del.). The newer draft was the result of bipartisan discussion and compromise in attempt to ensure that the resolution would pass.

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<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congressional_actions_regarding_President_Bush%E2%80%99s_2007_proposed_troop_%E2%80%9Csurge%E2%80%9D_in_Iraq" title="Congressional actions regarding President Bush’s 2007 proposed troop “surge” in Iraq" style="">Congressional actions regarding President Bush’s 2007 proposed troop “surge” in Iraq</a></dd>

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<h4>Iraq War deadline bill</h4>

After President Bush threatened to veto the supplemental bill calling for a withdrawal from Iraq, Senate Majority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a> (D-Nev.) promised to support a bill sponsored by Sen. Feingold which would impose a strict deadline for U.S. troop removal. Specifically, it requires the following:

<ul>

<li>The president shall promptly transition the mission of United States forces in Iraq to the following limited purposes:

<ul>

<li>Conducting targeted operations, limited in duration and scope, against members of al Qaeda and other international terrorist organizations.</li>

<li>Providing security for United States infrastructure and personnel.</li>

<li>Training and equipping Iraqi security services.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>The president shall commence the safe, phased redeployment of United States forces from Iraq in no more than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this act.</li>

<li>No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under any provision of law may be obligated or expended to continue the deployment in Iraq of members of the United States Armed Forces after March 31, 2008.</li>

</ul>

On May 16, 2007, the measure was defeated in the Senate, 29-67.

<dl>

<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sen.Feingold_measure_to_end_funding_for_the_Iraq_War_in_2008%28S.AMDT.1098%29" title="Sen. Feingold measure to end funding for the Iraq War in 2008 (S.AMDT.1098)" class="mw-redirect" style="">Sen. Feingold measure to end funding for the Iraq War in 2008 (S.AMDT.1098)</a></dd>

</dl>

When leaders in both chambers announced their intention to introduce funding bills without timetables for troop withdrawal, Feingold immediately criticized the decision. He stated:

<blockquote>"Under the President’s Iraq policies, our military has been over-burdened, our national security has been jeopardized, and thousands of Americans have been killed or injured. Despite these realities, and the support of a majority of Americans for ending the President’s open-ended mission in Iraq, congressional leaders now propose a supplemental appropriations bill that does nothing to end this disastrous war. I cannot support a bill that contains nothing more than toothless benchmarks and that allows the President to continue what may be the greatest foreign policy blunder in our nation’s history. There has been a lot of tough talk from members of Congress about wanting to end this war, but it looks like the desire for political comfort won out over real action. Congress should have stood strong, acknowledged the will of the American people, and insisted on a bill requiring a real change of course in Iraq."</blockquote>

<dl>

<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congressional_actions_to_end_the_Iraq_War_in_the_110th_Congress" title="Congressional actions to end the Iraq War in the 110th Congress">Congressional actions to end the Iraq War in the 110th Congress</a></dd>

</dl>

<h4>Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007</h4>

When the Senate went to conference committee on the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 after the House passed similar lobbying and transparency legislation in several other bills, Sen. Feingold, who sought to extend the "revolving door" time period from one year to two years, asked to be on the conference committee to pursue those reforms. However, Senate Majority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a> (D-Nev.) denied Feingold's request. Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> (D-Ill.), another major champion of lobbying reform, may be included in the conference committee, but his presidential campaign schedule may affect his ability to do so effectively. Many lobbying reform advocacy groups, including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_Citizen" title="Public Citizen">Public Citizen</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Public_Interest_Research_Group" title="U.S. Public Interest Research Group" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Public Interest Research Group</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democracy_21" title="Democracy 21">Democracy 21</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Common_Cause" title="Common Cause">Common Cause</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/League_of_Women_Voters" title="League of Women Voters">League of Women Voters</a>, aware that the make up of the conference committee would be crucial in determining the final outcome of the legislation, were disappointed over the announcement.

<dl>

<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Legislative_Transparency_and_Accountability_Act_of_2007" title="Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007" style="">Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007</a></dd>

</dl>

<h3>Patriot Act</h3>

Feingold was the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=1&vote=00313">only senator</a> to vote against the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patriot_Act" title="Patriot Act" class="mw-redirect">Patriot Act</a>, which, he said, infringed upon citizens' civil liberties. Many at the time predicted his political career was over, but a majority of Wisconsin residents had little problem with his vote. Later, as public opinion turned against certain portions of the Act, his vote became a major selling-point for his re-election campaign.

The Patriot Act was recently up for renewal. Feingold led a bipartisan coalition of Senators that includes <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lisa_Murkowski" title="Lisa Murkowski">Lisa Murkowski</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ken_Salazar" title="Ken Salazar">Ken Salazar</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Larry_Craig" title="Larry Craig">Larry Craig</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dick_Durbin" title="Dick Durbin">Dick Durbin</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Sununu" title="John Sununu" class="mw-redirect">John Sununu</a> to remove some of the act's more controversial provisions. Feingold led a lonely filibuster against the act but several key Republicans, including Sununu and Craig, reached an agreement with the White House in early February 2006.

On March 2, 2006, the revised Patriot Act passed the Senate. There were only ten "no" votes which came from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Jeffords" title="Jim Jeffords">Jim Jeffords</a>, Feingold, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_Byrd" title="Robert Byrd" class="mw-redirect">Robert Byrd</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_Akaka" title="Daniel Akaka">Daniel Akaka</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeff_Bingaman" title="Jeff Bingaman">Jeff Bingaman</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tom_Harkin" title="Tom Harkin">Tom Harkin</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_Leahy" title="Patrick Leahy">Patrick Leahy</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Carl_Levin" title="Carl Levin">Carl Levin</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patty_Murray" title="Patty Murray">Patty Murray</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ron_Wyden" title="Ron Wyden">Ron Wyden</a>. ("Patriot Act compromise passes Senate, awaits House vote," The Associated Press, March 2, 2006).

<h3>Campaign finance</h3>

<h4>McCain-Feingold bill</h4>

Feingold is perhaps best known for his work alongside Republican Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a> (R-Ariz.) on the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA), better-known as the McCain-Feingold bill, which took the two almost seven years to pass. In 2001, Feingold sponsored BCRA with Sen. McCain in the Senate and Reps. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christopher_Shays" title="Christopher Shays" class="mw-redirect">Christopher Shays</a> (R-Conn.) and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marty_Meehan" title="Marty Meehan">Marty Meehan</a> (D-Mass.) in the House. Also known as the McCain-Feingold bill in the Senate, the BCRA banned "soft money" from being contributed to federal or state candidates and national, state, and local political parties. BCRA also prohibited non-partisan "issue ads" funded by soft money from corporations and labor unions - those referring to candidates for federal election without expressly advocating their election or defeat -- in the 60 days prior to a general election, or 30 days prior to a primary election. It also required the disclosure of sources of finance for "electioneering communications" in excess of $10,000 per year, and raised the legal limits of hard money that could be raised.

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<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act_of_2002" title="Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002" style="">Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002</a></dd>

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On July 14, 2005, Feingold introduced a bill to the Senate that would ban lobbyists from giving gifts to senators and impose a $50,000 fine for violating the ban; force lawmakers to sign statements saying that lobbyists did not pay their travel expenses; forbid lawmakers from traveling on corporate jets; bar congressmen, staffers, and executive branch officials from serving as lobbyists for two years after leaving office; and require that lobbying reports be disclosed on a quarterly, rather than semi-annual, basis. The bill is the Senate version of a bill by Congressmen <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marty_Meehan" title="Marty Meehan">Marty Meehan</a> (D-MA), who co-wrote the House version of McCain-Feingold, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rahm_Emanuel" title="Rahm Emanuel">Rahm Emanuel</a> (D-IL). Neither version has yet come to a vote. The Feingold-McCain bill was initially waiting completion of McCain hearings on the issue, but the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff">Jack Abramoff</a> scandal has put it in the spotlight, along with several other more recent reform proposals.

<h4>Public financing of elections</h4>

On January 30, 2007, Feingold, along with Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> (D-Ill.) introduced the Presidential Funding Act of 2007 (S.436), an attempt to update public financing of election laws. Specifically, the bill would:

<ul>

<li>Raise spending limits for the presidential primary and general election.</li>

<li>Increase the amount of public matching funds available during the primary process.</li>

<li>Allow earlier access to public funds in the primary process.</li>

<li>Provide additional funds to publicly financed candidates who are significantly outspent by privately financed candidates.</li>

<li>Increase the check-off from $3 to $10 for individuals and $6 to $20 for couples.</li>

<li>Prohibit national parties from raising or spending soft money for party nominating conventions.</li>

</ul>

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<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_financing_of_elections_%28U.S.%29" title="Public financing of elections (U.S.)" style="">Public financing of elections (U.S.)</a></dd>

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<h4>Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act</h4>

Sen. Feingold, along with Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dianne_Feinstein" title="Dianne Feinstein">Dianne Feinstein</a> (D-Calif.) sponsored the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act of 2007, which would require senators to file their campaign finance reports electronically to the Federal Election Commission. Currently reports are disseminated in paper form often long after they are initially filed, preventing voters from obtaining financial disclosure information in a timely fashion. On April 17, 2007, Sens. Feinstein and Feingold brought the bill to the floor for a unanimous consent motion. Upon asking for unanimous consent on this seemingly non-controversial bill, Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lamar_Alexander" title="Lamar Alexander">Lamar Alexander</a> (R-Tenn.) objected to the bill for an anonymous senator from the Republican side. This anonymous objection amounted to a senator placing a “secret hold” on the bill, effectively stopping it. Despite efforts to determine who the anonymous hold was, when the Senators attempted again to bring the bill to the floor for unanimous consent, Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Bunning" title="Jim Bunning">Jim Bunning</a> (R-Ky.) registered another anonymous objection from the Republican side, blocking it again. As of yet, the bill has not been allowed to proceed.

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<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Campaign_Disclosure_Parity_Act_of_2007" title="Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act of 2007" style="">Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act of 2007</a></dd>

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<h3>Government spending</h3>

Feingold is also a well-known advocate for reductions in pork barrel spending and corporate welfare. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer%7C">Citizens Against Government Waste</a>, the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.concordcoalition.org/%7C">Concord Coalition</a>, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.taxpayer.net/%7C">Taxpayers for Common Sense</a>, three large, nonpartisan organizations dedicated to those causes, have repeatedly given him awards, words of praise, and endorsements for his actions.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

<h3>Bush Censure</h3>

<h4>2006 censure effort</h4>

Feingold favors censure for President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a> in what Feingold terms "warrantless wiretapping of Americans on U.S. soil." In his statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On the Call To Censure the President on March 31, 2006, he stated:

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<dd>"We can fight terrorism without breaking the law. The rule of law is central to who we are as a people, and the President must return to the law. He must acknowledge and be held accountable for his illegal actions and for misleading the American people, both before and after the program was revealed. If we in the Congress don't stand up for ourselves and for the American people, we become complicit in his law breaking. A resolution of censure is the appropriate response – even a modest approach.",<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-2">[3]</a></dd>

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Feingold has little support from his Senate colleagues. "Most Democrats are nervous, if not dismayed, by Feingold's election-year proposal," the San Francisco Gate reported.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-3">[4]</a>

<h4>2007 move to censure Bush and Cheney</h4>

In July, 2007, Feingold once again moved to censure President Bush, this time also moving to censure Vice President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Cheney</a> and others. Feingold argued that censure would:

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<dd>[Signal] that a co-equal branch of government stood up and held to account those who violated the principles on which this nation was founded.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-4">[5]</a></dd>

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Feingold also argued that:

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<dd>Censure is about holding the administration accountable. Congress needs to formally condemn the President and members of the administration for misconduct before and during the Iraq war, and for undermining the rule of law at home.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-5">[6]</a></dd>

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Feingold planned to introduce two measures, one addressing the administration's conduct leading up to the Iraq war, and the other focusing on domestic issues like wiretapping.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

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<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Feingold_resolutions_for_the_censure_of_George_W._Bush" title="Feingold resolutions for the censure of George W. Bush" style="">Feingold resolutions for the censure of George W. Bush</a></dd>

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</div>

<h3>Gun issues</h3>

Feingold has a mixed record on gun rights and gun control issues, sometimes voting in favor of gun control legislation, while at other times voting to expand gun rights. In 2004, he was one of only six Democrats in the Senate to vote against reauthorizing the federal assault weapons ban. In 2002, he voted in favor of allowing airline pilots to carry firearms in cockpits. He has spoken out in support of the interpretation that the Second Amendment pertains to an individual right to own firearms, and in opposition to proposals for handgun bans and mandatory firearms registration. On the other hand, he has consistently voted in favor of bills to require background checks for firearms purchases at gun shows, and to require that handguns be sold with trigger locks. In March 2004, he explained his position in a speech on the Senate floor:

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<dd>"I have never accepted the proposition that the gun debate is a black and white issue, a matter of 'you're with us, or you're against us.' Instead, I have followed what I believe is a moderate course, faithful to the Constitution and to the realities of modern society. I believe that the Second Amendment was not an afterthought, that it has meaning today and must be respected. I support the right to bear arms for lawful purposes — for hunting and sport and for self-protection. Millions of Americans own firearms legally and we should not take action that tells them that they are second-class citizens or that their constitutional rights are under attack. At the same time, there are actions we can and should take to protect public safety that do not infringe on constitutional rights."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-7">[8]</a></dd>

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<h3>Reparations for Japanese Latin Americans</h3>

Feingold cosponsored The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/110th_Congress" title="110th Congress" class="mw-redirect">110th Congress</a> which would establish a commission that would determine the facts and circumstances involving the relocation, internment and deportation of Japanese Latin Americans.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-8">[9]</a>

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<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Redress_for_Japanese_Latin_Americans/U.S.legislation#Commission_on_Wartime_Relocation_and_Internment_of_Latin_Americans_of_Japanese_Descent_Act_of_2007" title="Redress for Japanese Latin Americans/ U.S. legislation" style="">Redress for Japanese Latin Americans/ U.S. legislation#Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act of 2007</a></dd>

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<h3>Background</h3>

Feingold was born March 2, 1953,in Janesville, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in 1975, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He went to Magdalen College at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1977, where he earned another Bachelor of Arts, and upon returning to the U.S. attended Harvard Law School, graduating with a law degree with honors in 1979.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-9">[10]</a>

He was a Practicing Attorney in Madison, Wisconsin, from 1979 to 1985 at Foley & Lardner and La Follette & Sinykin. In 1982 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate where he served until his election to the United States Senate.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-10">[11]</a> In 1987, he joined the "Bowtie Brigade," a coalition of grassroots activists and local-level politicians who backed the presidential candidacy of Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Simon" title="Paul Simon">Paul Simon</a> of Illinois, who would later become a mentor to Feingold during the early days of his senate career.

<h3>Senate Elections</h3>

Feingold's senatorial career began in 1992 with a surprising victory over incumbent Republican Senator Bob Kasten. Feingold, who had little name recognition in the state and was campaigning in a primary against a pair of millionaire opponents, adopted several proposals to gain the electorate's attention. The most memorable of these was a series of five promises written on Feingold's garage door in the form of a contract.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-11">[12]</a>

During the primary campaign, Feingold unveiled an 82-point plan to eliminate the deficit by the end of his first term.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-12">[13]</a> The plan, which called for, among other things, a raise in taxes and cuts in the defense budget, was derided as "extremist" by Republicans and "too liberal" by his Democratic opponents. Feingold also announced his support for strict campaign finance reform and a national health care system and voiced his opposition to term limits and new tax cuts.

On primary day, Feingold, whose support had shown in the single digits throughout much of the campaign, stunned observers by surging to victory with 70% of the vote. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-13">[14]</a> With only seven weeks before the election, the momentum created by this upset win, along with support from people who came out to vote for presidential candidates <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ross_Perot" title="Ross Perot" class="mw-redirect">Ross Perot</a>, allowed Feingold to beat Kasten by 6% on election day.

During his 1998 re-election campaign, Feingold once again eschewed big-money campaigning, despite the fact that the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Republican_Senatorial_Committee" title="National Republican Senatorial Committee">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a> had targeted him for defeat.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-14">[15]</a> Feingold placed a cap on his own fundraising, refusing to raise or spend more than $3.8 million (one dollar for every citizen of Wisconsin) during the campaign. In addition, he placed the same limits on his fundraising that he would have faced under the McCain-Feingold bill. He refused to allow his party to raise any soft money to air ads favoring him and he requested that several special interest groups, including the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/AFL-CIO" title="AFL-CIO">AFL-CIO</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/League_of_Conservation_Voters" title="League of Conservation Voters">League of Conservation Voters</a>, refrain from airing pro-Feingold "issue ads." His Republican opponent, Congressman Mark Neumann, also limited himself to $3.8 million in spending, but allowed soft money to be used in his favor by a variety of pro-Republican groups.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-15">[16]</a> On election day, an extraordinarily strong showing in the Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and Madison allowed Feingold to win by less than one percent of the vote.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-16">[17]</a>

In the 2004 Senate election, Feingold defeated the Republican candidate, construction magnate Tim Michels, by 12% (56%-44%), earning a third term. During the campaign, Feingold refrained from imposing spending caps on himself as he had in the past, and raised and spent almost $11 million. Although Republicans attempted to use that fact to paint him as a hypocrite, Feingold's records showed that more than 90% of the money came from individuals <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-17">[18]</a>, that the average contribution was only $60, and that, once again, a majority of it was raised from Wisconsin residents. Feingold's victory was seen by many pundits as a vindication of the many controversial stances that he had taken during his second term, as it was by far his largest electoral victory thus far. Feingold even won many counties which also supported the re-election of Republican President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a>.

<h3>Senate Career</h3>

Feingold regularly holds what he refers to as "listening sessions" in all 72 Wisconsin counties to listen to his constituents' concerns, and has held more than 900 since he was elected to office.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-18">[19]</a>

In late December 2004, Feingold was appointed to be one of four deputy whips for the Senate Democrats. Feingold has pledged that the new role would not sway his maverick stance within the party or the chamber.

On August 17, 2005, Feingold became the first U.S. senator of either party to suggest a firm date for American withdrawal from the Iraq war, saying that he favored a complete withdrawal by no later than December 31, 2006.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-19">[20]</a>

On September 22, 2005, during the hearing on Judge <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts" class="mw-redirect">John Roberts</a>'s nomination for Chief Justice of the United States, Feingold became one of three Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote in favor of sending Roberts' nomination to the floor for a full vote. He also announced that he would vote to confirm Roberts. However, Feingold voted against <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito" class="mw-redirect">Samuel Alito</a> in committee and on the Senate floor, the first time in his career that he did not support a president's nominee.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-20">[21]</a>

Feingold's primary legislative focus has been on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Campaign_finance_reform" title="Campaign finance reform">campaign finance reform</a>, fair trade policies, health care reform, environmental protection, a multilateral foreign policy, Social Security, abolishing the death penalty, and eliminating wasteful spending. Senator Feingold was the only Democratic senator to vote against a motion to dismiss Congress' 1998-1999 impeachment case of President Bill Clinton. In a statement, Feingold said House prosecutors must have "every reasonable opportunity" to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clinton should be removed from office on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-21">[22]</a> Feingold ultimately voted against conviction on all charges. In 2001 Feingold voted for the confirmation of Attorney General <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Ashcroft" title="John Ashcroft" class="mw-redirect">John Ashcroft</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-22">[23]</a> This decision was not popular with his party, but Feingold claims that he voted based on respect for the right for a President to choose his Cabinet, not because of his own personal opinions on Ashcroft. Feingold has also been an opponent of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NAFTA" title="NAFTA">NAFTA</a> and other free trade agreements, an unpopular position among some Democrats, but one lauded by others.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-23">[24]</a>

Feingold is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. His name has been mentioned as a possible candidate in the 2008 presidential election, and several grassroots websites have been started to convince him to run.

<h3>2010 election</h3>

In 2010, Feingold lost his Senate seat to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican" title="Republican" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> new-comer <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Johnson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Johnson (page does not exist)">Ron Johnson</a> in a competitive race in a year that was tough for Democrats.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_note-WP-0">[1]</a>

<h2>Meet the cash constituents</h2>

<table class="prettytable"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3">Links to more campaign contribution information for Russ Feingold

from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th></tr><tr><td>Fundraising profile:</td><td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00000036">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00000036">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by organization/corporation:</td><td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00000036">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00000036">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by industry:</td><td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00000036">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00000036">Career totals</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2>Committees and affiliations</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Special_Committee_on_Aging" title="Senate Special Committee on Aging">Senate Special Committee on Aging</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Committee_on_the_Budget" title="Senate Committee on the Budget">Senate Committee on the Budget</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Senate Committee on Foreign Relations">Senate Committee on Foreign Relations</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on African Affairs - Ranking Minority Member</li>

<li>Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs</li>

<li>Subcommittee on European Affairs</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" title="Senate Select Committee on Intelligence">Senate Select Committee on Intelligence</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Senate Committee on the Judiciary</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Antitrust Competition Policy and Consumer Rights</li>

<li>Subcommittee on the Constitution Civil Rights and Property Rights - Ranking Minority Member</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Corrections and Rehabilitations</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security and Citizenship</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Technology Terrorism and Homeland Security</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> also has an article on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Feingold">Russ Feingold</a>. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL">GFDL</a>.

<h2>Articles and resources</h2>

<h3>Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Feingold_amendment_to_bring_the_troops_home_from_Iraq" title="Feingold amendment to bring the troops home from Iraq">Feingold amendment to bring the troops home from Iraq</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Feingold_resolution_for_the_censure_of_George_W._Bush" title="Feingold resolution for the censure of George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">Feingold resolution for the censure of George W. Bush</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/McCain-Feingold" title="McCain-Feingold" class="mw-redirect">McCain-Feingold</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-WP-0">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-WP_0-0">1.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-WP_0-1">1.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Russell_Feingold">Russ Feingold profile</a>, The Washington Post, accessed January 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.org/carreeraccomplishments.php">"Russ' Accomplishments,"</a> Feingold Senate Committee.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-2">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://feingold.senate.gov/%7Efeingold/statements/06/03/2006331.html">"Feingold statement on Bush censure,"</a> Office of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, June 4, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-3">↑</a> Edward Epstein, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/04/01/MNGTRI1V221.DTL">"Colleagues cool to Feingold's bid to censure Bush,"</a> SF Chronicle, April 1, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-4">↑</a> Klaus Marre, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/feingold-calls-for-censure-of-bush-2007-07-22.html">"Feingold calls for censure of Bush,"</a> The Hill, July 22, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-5">↑</a> Klaus Marre, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/feingold-calls-for-censure-of-bush-2007-07-22.html">"Feingold calls for censure of Bush,"</a> The Hill, July 22, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-6">↑</a> Klaus Marre, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/feingold-calls-for-censure-of-bush-2007-07-22.html">"Feingold calls for censure of Bush,"</a> The Hill, July 22, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-7">↑</a> Russ Feingold, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.senate.gov/%7Efeingold/speeches/04/03/2004310624.html">"Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold on the Gun Manufacturers Liability Bill,"</a> Office of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, April 3, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-8">↑</a> "SENS. INOUYE, AKAKA, LEAHY, LEVIN, BENNETT, MURKOWSKI, STEVENS," US Fed News 15, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-9">↑</a> Office of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://feingold.senate.gov/news/biography.html">"Biography of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold,"</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-10">↑</a> Office of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://feingold.senate.gov/news/biography.html">"Biography of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold,"</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-11">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.org/promiseskept.php">"Promises Made, Promises Kept,"</a> Feingold Senate Committee.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-12">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.org/carreeraccomplishments.php">"Russ' Accomplishments,"</a> Feingold Senate Committee.</li>

<li id="cite_note-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-13">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.org/carreeraccomplishments.php">"Russ' Accomplishments,"</a> Feingold Senate Committee.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-14">↑</a> Ruth Conniff, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.org/news/patriot.php">" The Patriot: Could Russ Feingold's defense of civil liberties cost him his job?"</a> The Isthmus, July 3, 2003.</li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-15">↑</a> Ruth Conniff, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.org/news/patriot.php">" The Patriot: Could Russ Feingold's defense of civil liberties cost him his job?"</a> The Isthmus, July 3, 2003.</li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-16">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.org/carreeraccomplishments.php">"Russ' Accomplishments,"</a> Feingold Senate Committee.</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-17">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00000036&cycle=2004">"Russ Feingold 2004 Senate Campaign Financial Data,"</a> Opensecrets</li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-18">↑</a> Office of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://feingold.senate.gov/news/biography.html">"Biography of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold,"</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-19">↑</a> Richard Mial, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/10/31/opinion/31mial.txt">"It’s time to think about ‘Iraqization’,"</a> La Crosse Tribune, October 31, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-20">↑</a> John Nichols, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=52420">"Feingold: Alito Would Be "Dangerous Addition" to Court,"</a> The Nation, January 24, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-21">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/28/feingold.01/">"Democrat bucks party line to vote with GOP in Clinton hearing,"</a> CNN, January 28, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-22">↑</a> Ruth Conniff, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.org/news/patriot.php">" The Patriot: Could Russ Feingold's defense of civil liberties cost him his job?"</a> The Isthmus, July 3, 2003.</li>

<li id="cite_note-23"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Russ_Feingold#cite_ref-23">↑</a> [www.russfeingold.org/Feingold_vs_Michels.php "Russ Feingold vs. Tim Michels,"] Feingold Senate Committee.</li>

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<h3>External resources</h3>

<ul>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://feingold.senate.gov/">Official website</a>.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.org/">Campaign website</a>.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yourcongress.com/profile.asp?member_id=162">"Russell D. Feingold"</a> Profile, YourCongress.com.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.progressivepatriotsfund.com/">Progressive Patriots Fund</a> website; a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee">political action committee</a> (PAC) founded by Feingold in 2005.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Russell_Feingold.htm">OnTheIssues.org Analysis of Russ Feingold</a>.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/03/22.html#a7627">Interview with Jon Stewart</a>, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, March 22, 2006. (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daily_Show" title="Daily Show">Other Daily Show interviews with members of Congress.</a>)</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=60687">Segment on Feingold’s proposed censure of President Bush</a>, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daily_Show" title="Daily Show">Other Daily Show segments on members of Congress.</a>)</li>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://whereistand.com/RussFeingold/wizard">See how you compare to Russ Feingold</a></li>

</ul>

<h4>Local blogs and discussion sites</h4>

<ul>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.draftruss.com/">DraftRuss.com</a>, draft Russell Feingold for President website (unofficial).</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russfeingold.blogspot.com/">Russ Feingold for President</a> Blogspot (unofficial).</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.russforpresident.com/">RussForPresident.com</a>, Feingold for President website (unofficial).</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mccain-feingold-insurrection.blogspot.com/">The McCain-Feingold Insurrection</a> Blogspot.</li>

</ul>

<h3>External articles</h3>

<ul>

<li>Justin Raimondo, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://antiwar.com/blog/?p=2330">"Feingold: A Rising Star?"</a> Antiwar.com Blog, August 29, 2005.</li>

<li>Robert Kuttner, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/10/08/feingold_leads_way_on_iraq_war/">"Feingold leads way on Iraq war,"</a> Boston Globe, October 8, 2005.</li>

<li>Michael Scherer, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/10/10/feingold/index.html">"Why the U.S. must leave Iraq. Sen. Russ Feingold says it's time to admit the war was a disaster -- and accuses his fellow Democrats of going along with Bush out of fear,"</a> Salon, October 10, 2005.</li>

<li>Anis Memon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/memon10132005.html">"The Curious Case of Russ Feingold. The Devil is in the Repackaging,"</a> CounterPunch, October 13, 2005.</li>

<li>John Nichols, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=43115">"Feingold Beats Bush In Patriot Act Fight,"</a> The Online Beat/The Nation Blogs, December 16, 2005.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=1418046&gma=true">"Senator Says Bush Is Acting Like 'King George',"</a> ABC News, December 18, 2005.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Feingold_President_breaking_law_0207.html">"Amidst flurry of Bush attacks, Feingold hits Congress wiretaps: 'Congress has lost its way',"</a> The Raw Story, February 7, 2006.</li>

<li>Matthew Rothschild, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx020806">"Feingold Tells It Like It Is,"</a> The Progressive, February 8, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/47/17760">"Feingold Again Tries to Block Patriot Act,"</a> Associated Press (truthout), February 15, 2006.</li>

<li>Dotty Lynch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/13/opinion/lynch/main1397694.shtml">"Will Russ Feingold Stand Alone Again? Senator Takes Heat For Resolution To Censure Bush,"</a> CBS News, March 13, 2006.</li>

<li>Don Hazen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/33498/">"The heroism of Russ Feingold ... and how the Democratic Party isn't stepping up,"</a> The Mix/AlterNet Blogs, March 13, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thinkprogress.org/2006/03/14/feingold-accuses/">"Feingold Accuses Senate Democrats of 'Cowering' To Bush,"</a> Think Progress, March 14, 2006.</li>

<li>Terence P. Jeffrey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13234">"Censure Feingold,"</a> Human Events Online, March 15, 2006.</li>

<li>georgia10, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/16/141510/751">"Feingold on Truthiness,"</a> Daily Kos, March 16, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200603160007">"Hannity falsely claimed Feingold was a 'flip-flopper' on Iraq invasion,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Media_Matters_for_America" title="Media Matters for America">Media Matters for America</a>, March 16, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.factcheck.org/article381.html">"RNC Mischaracterizes Feingold's Censure Resolution. A GOP radio ad falsely characterizes Sen. Feingold's censure resolution as reprimanding the President for pursuing Al Qaeda,"</a> FactCheck.org, March 21, 2006.</li>

<li>Russ Baker, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/24/ganging_up_on_feingold.php">"Ganging Up On Feingold,"</a> TomPaine.com, March 24, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12010122/">"McCain, Feingold pressure Iraq’s leaders. Key senators tell officials that American patience is growing thin,"</a> Associated Press (MSNBC), March 25, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032606Y.shtml">"Feingold's Standing Boosted Among Voters,"</a> Associated Press (truthout), March 26, 2006.</li>

<li>Dan Balz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040401624.html">"Feingold Backs Legalizing Same-Sex Marriages,"</a> Washington Post, April 5, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/nataffdaily/story/9598097/feingold_goes_for_broke">"Feingold Goes for Broke,"</a> Rolling Stone, April 5, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.factcheck.org/article388.html">"Is This A Joke? Sen. Russ Feingold's Leadership PAC suggests the White House wants to wiretap political opponents,"</a> FactCheck.org, April 25, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004740.php">"Sen. Feingold 'Absolutely Convinced' NSA Spying Program Is Illegal,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>, June 14, 2006.</li>

<li>Isaiah J. Poole, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/14/feingold_is_gold.php">"Feingold is Gold,"</a> TomPaine.com, June 14, 2006.</li>

<li>Taylor Marsh, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=24149">"Russ Feingold on the Attack -- updated,"</a> TaylorMarsh.com, June 14, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0619-14.htm">News Release: "John Kerry and Russ Feingold to Offer Amendment with Deadline to Redeploy U.S. Combat Troops From Iraq,"</a> Common Dreams, June 19, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Kerry_Feingold_counter_other_Democrats_demand_0619.html">"Kerry, Feingold counter other Democrats, demand pullout by July 2007,"</a> The Raw Story, June 19, 2006.</li>

<li>Faiz Shakir, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/25/feingold-somalia/">"VIDEO: Feingold Argues Emergence of Al Qaeda Leader Shows 'Insanity' Of Misplaced Priorities,"</a> Think Progress, June 25, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=68221">News Release: "RNC Response to Sen. Russ Feingold's Appearance on NBC's Meet The Press,"</a> U.S. Newswire, June 25, 2006.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sher_Zieve" title="Sher Zieve">Sher Zieve</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/15639.html">"Feingold Says Democrat Senators Intimidated,"</a> The Conservative Voice, June 26, 2006.</li>

<li>Frederic J. Frommer, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/27/ap/politics/mainD8IGH3QO0.shtml">"Kerry and Feingold Form Alliance on Iraq. Sens. Kerry and Feingold form alliance on Iraq, insist politics have nothing to do with it,"</a> Associated Press (CBS News), June 27, 2006.</li>

<li>Trevor Potter, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/guests/s_460230.html">"McCain-Feingold is a good start,"</a> Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 2, 2006.</li>

<li>Jeffrey Mazzella, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060703-102600-6865r.htm">Editorial/Op-Ed: "Feingold's free-speech folly,"</a> Washington Times, July 4, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.channel3000.com/politics/9469593/detail.html">"Feingold Is One Of Many Presidential Hopefuls. McCain, Clinton Among Frontrunners,"</a> Channel3000 WISCTV.com, July 5, 2006.</li>

<li>John Nichols, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=90505&ntpid=0">"Feingold, Obey and good values,"</a> The Capital Times (Madison, WI), July 10, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060715/NEWS/60715057/1001">"Feingold bolsters anti-war Democrats in Iowa,"</a> DesMoinesRegister.com, July 15, 2006.</li>

<li>Mike Glover, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071500535.html">"Feingold Addresses Voter Unrest Over Iraq,"</a> Associated Press (Washington Post); <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5953384,00.html">Guardian Unlimited (UK))</a>, July 15, 2006.</li>

<li>Ed Tibbetts, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/07/17/news/local/doc44bb0ccd7aa03464760210.txt">"Feingold visits Q-C, denounces president,"</a> Quad-City Times, July 17, 2006. Feingold: "Republicans are most afraid of Democrats when they stand their ground ..."</li>

<li>Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/22/AR2007042201054.html?hpid=topnews">"Four Clear Voices Rise Above the Din on Iraq,"</a> Washington Post, April 23, 2007.</li>

</ul>

<h4>By Senator Russ Feingold</h4>

<ul>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/feingold.html">Statement Of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold On The Anti-Terrorism Bill</a>, From The Senate Floor, October 25, 2001. Posted by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Electronic_Privacy_Information_Center" title="Electronic Privacy Information Center">Electronic Privacy Information Center</a>.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0726-24.htm">"Time to Put Curbs on Lobbying,"</a> Star-Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (Common Dreams), July 26, 2005.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bostonreview.net/BR31.1/feingold.html">"Setting a timeframe has everything to do with improving national security,"</a> Boston Review, January/February 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/feingold02102006.html">"A Raw Deal on the Patriot Act. The Worst Parts Remain Unchanged,"</a> CounterPunch, February 10, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/02/15/traitors/">"Patriot Act games. If Democrats won't stand up to an executive who doesn't worry about trampling the rights of innocent Americans, what do we stand for?"</a> Salon, February 15, 2006. Preview or subscription required.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070601474.html">Letter to the Editor: "In Defense of McCain-Feingold,"</a> Washington Post, July 7, 2006.</li>

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