11.   And while his bill to overhaul the campaign finance system suffered a stinging defeat in the Senate on Tuesday, McCain attracted plenty of publicity for pushing the measure.

12.   Anticipating the subject, Clinton called in his opening statement Tuesday for Republicans and Democrats alike to seize the moment and clean up the campaign finance system this year.

13.   Any overhaul of the campaign finance system faces an uphill battle in Congress, where a number of powerful lawmakers have signaled their willingness to block any such legislation.

14.   Arizona threw out its creaking campaign finance system and opted for a revolutionary measure that would have the public rather than lobbyists and special interests pay for state elections.

15.   At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the justices talked about a lot of things that seemed to be wrong with the campaign finance system.

16.   At the same time, Thompson tried to draw attention to a hopelessly broken campaign finance system.

17.   Beginning next week, the committee will spend two to three weeks examining the campaign finance system.

18.   Bennett said that the old campaign system, which did not have spending limits, produced such presidents as Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

19.   A bloc of breakaway Republicans thwarted Speaker Newt Gingrich Thursday in his last-ditch effort to kill a proposed overhaul of the campaign finance system.

20.   A great vulnerability of Gore is the fund-raising scandals, despite his vow to sign a bill reforming the campaign finance system.