Highlights of the Shays-Meehan campaign finance bill under debate in the House:

SOFT MONEY:

•	National party committees can’t use soft money. Contributions to state party committees are limited to $10,000 and must be for get-out-the-vote and registration efforts.

HARD MONEY:

•	Individual contributions are limited to $1,000 to House candidates, $2,000 to Senate and presidential candidates and $30,000 to parties. Amounts would be indexed for inflation.

MILLIONAIRE OPPONENTS:

•	Raises contribution limits for candidates when they face wealthy opponents.

BROADCAST ADVERTISING:

•	The ability of unions, corporations and nonprofits to fund broadcast "issue ads" would be restricted if the ads referred to a federal candidate and ran within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary. They would have to be paid for with hard money through a political action committee.

COURT REVIEW:

•	Tells the Supreme Court it should judge each provision individually and not view the legislation on an all-or-nothing basis.