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Feingold has earned our endorsement and your support.
He has been a consistent supporter of making Congress pay for the things it does — rather than allow the federal deficit to increase. Those "pay-go" rules allowed the government to balance the budget in the 1990s, but have been abandoned today.
During the past seven years, Feingold worked in a bipartisan way with Arizona Republican John McCain on campaign finance reform. The McCain-Feingold law that resulted from that effort was not perfect, but it did close a major loophole by which political parties could take an unlimited amount of money from donors and spend it on behalf of candidates.
There is more work to be done, but Feingold and McCain deserve credit for their efforts.
In addition, Feingold has worked to increase the amount of money the federal government sends to Wisconsin through the Medicare program, and he has fought for the right of individuals to obtain lower priced prescriptions from Canada, something that the administration has blocked with its new Medicare law.
Feingold clearly is his own person. He broke with his own party and voted to confirm John Ashcroft as attorney general, because he believed the president had a right to choose his own cabinet.
When he thought that the government's Patriot Act went too far in certain provisions, he cast the only Senate vote against it. Since then, he has introduced legislation to correct the problems he saw.
The important thing to remember is that, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Feingold believed it was his duty to carefully read and study the proposal and vote accordingly. That took political courage.
We're proud to endorse Sen. Feingold for another term.
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