as our colleagues here in th senate know veryell, senator feingold is equally skilled at building bridges across the aisle and carrying the fight those who would -- we witnessed these tall enters during feingo's relentless campaign to pass the landmark 2002 bipartisan campaign reform act better known as the -- as the mccain-feingold law. senator feingold and his legislative partner, senator mccain, championed this legislation for nearly two years, overcoming stiff resistance from both parties as well as powerful interests outside the senate. they faced countless obstacles. they refused to give up and they won. again in 2007 in the wake of the abe a.m. office scandals, -- abram office scandals, senator feingold pushed through a tough ethics and lob which aring reform bill, which had closure requirements and a crackdown on abusive practices by lobbyists. as chair of the judiciary committee's constitution subcommittee, senator feingold cast the senate's lone vote agait the u.s.a. patriot a. mr. president, for nearly two decades in this body senator feingold has been an outspoken champion of