51.   Soft money should be banned.

52.   Still other Republicans have in the past asked Gingrich for a clean vote on banning soft money.

53.   Still, Sen. Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, a Democratic co-sponsor of a measure to ban soft money in politics, was critical of the concert.

54.   Supporters of legislation to ban soft money say they will try to bring it up in the Senate next month.

55.   That measure, which did ban soft money, would have passed if Sen. Lott had not blocked it with a filibuster.

56.   The bill would ban soft money, and it would also rein in advertising by advocacy groups.

57.   The bill, which McCain intends to push in his speech today, would ban soft money.

58.   The FEC is currently considering a proposal to ban soft money.

59.   The governor said that if Kerry did not agree on a limit, he would reverse his long held practice of banning PAC money from his campaign accounts.

60.   The leading reform bill in the Senate, cosponsored by Republican John McCain of Arizona and Democrat Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, would have banned soft money.