The informal name of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act references the measure's main Senate sponsors, John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.). But what became law, technically, was the House version of the bill, pushed mainly by Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan (D-Mass.).

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