The total campaign bill far surpasses that, figure, says the report.
Under the campaign bill, that's legal, except just before general elections and primaries.
The Senate voted 59 to 41 last year to pass a campaign bill that was quite close to the House bill.
The McCain-Feingold campaign bill was approved by the Senate last month and is now awaiting action in the House.
But Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican who wrote the campaign bill with Mr. Feingold, vehemently opposed the selection.
But the establishment of the corruption commission has been met with a lukewarm response in the Legislature, which failed to pass a comprehensive corruption and campaign bill earlier this year.
Most attention thus far has focused on the campaign bill's ban on unlimited contributions to the national political parties.
Republican senators who do not like his campaign bill do not like that implication either, and they harangued Mr. McCain over it the last time the campaign finance bill came up in October 1999.
Lawmakers' first order of business should be to overturn the "rule" and detach the campaign bill from the taxpayers' bill of rights, then defeat it.
Representative Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican who is pushing his own campaign bill, called it "shameful" for his opponents to use Enron to propel their cause.
A4 NATIONAL A8-11, 16 Lott Agrees to Debate On Campaign Bill in March Senator Trent Lott, the majority leader, and Senator John McCain agreed that the Senate would consider an overhaul of campaign finance laws in March, legislation that is sponsored by Mr. McCain.
