Russ Feingold

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Russell Dana Feingold ( FYNE-gold; born March 2, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who served from 1993 to 2011 as a United States senator from Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Wisconsin's 27th Senate district from 1983 to 1993 and was the U.S. Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2013 to 2015. In the Senate, Feingold was known for being the only U.S. senator to vote against the Patriot Act following the September 11 attacks. His signature legislative achievement was the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which he co-authored with Republican senator John McCain. Feingold and McCain received the 1999 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their efforts. The law, commonly known as the McCain–Feingold Act, sought to limit the influence of money in federal elections, though key provisions were later weakened by court decisions, culminating in the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC...

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