Campaign Finance: Vote to kill an amendment to a campaign-finance bill that would have eliminated all public financing from the bill.

Campaign Finance: Vote on passage of a campaign-finance bill that would create voluntary spending limits and reduce the amounts that political action committees can give candidates.

Although opposed to a complete ban on soft money, President Bush has indicated in recent days that he might be willing to sign a campaign-finance bill.

However Husted championed a campaign-finance bill in the Ohio congress that forced more disclosure from issue advocacy groups, like the one that allegedly provided him with assistance.

They forced major changes in the campaign-finance bill and in the measure easing voter registration rules before allowing those measures to come to a vote.

That is also a core component of the main campaign-finance bill in the Senate.

The Senate today defeated a last-ditch effort to advance the campaign-finance bill, leaving the issue deadlocked.

A campaign-finance bill that might actually become law could be much harder to sell.

For now, at least, the campaigns are stuck with the rule, a provision of the campaign-finance bill passed into law last year.

The confrontation was sparked when Mr. Lott suddenly asked for unanimous consent to bring the campaign-finance bill up for consideration before the end of the session.