1.   An audit report released last week showed that the presidential campaigns of both Clinton and Bob Dole had illegally benefited from issue advertising paid for by their parties.

2.   As party loyalty has dissipated, issue politics fueled by expensive issue advertising has grown in influence.

3.   Both parties used soft money for issue advertising to promote their presidential candidates.

4.   All the expert witnesses who favor campaign reform urged Congress not to adopt a ban on soft money without also adopting new restrictions on issue advertising.

5.   But on Wednesday, the commissioners agreed to dramatically reduce the repayment for the Dole campaign, presaging the Thursday decision to require no repayments for the issue advertising.

6.   Campaign reformers are also correct that the distinction the Supreme Court made between issue advertising and express advocacy has been obliterated in practice.

7.   Even some Republicans say issue advertising is clearly legal if the political parties pay for it.

8.   He briefed reporters on the launch of a second round of issue advertising that Republicans are running in key congressional districts.

9.   In each of the three rounds of issue advertising that the club has launched this year, one or two ads have praised Republicans for their environmental voting records.

10.   In the months left before the general election, the party tried to prop up his candidacy by spending millions of dollars on issue advertising that prominently featured Dole.