61.   The e-mail messages had been subpoenaed by a congressional committee and the Justice Department investigating allegations of campaign finance abuses and other matters in the Clinton administration.

62.   The Forum is one of a handful of conservative nonprofit organizations whose records have been subpoenaed by congressional investigators looking into possible campaign financing abuses.

63.   The first was to entrust the investigation of campaign finance abuses to Burton, the chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.

64.   The House and Senate are conducting separate inquiries into campaign finance abuses.

65.   The House hearings into campaign finance abuses were notable Friday more for an absence of courtesy than any illuminating testimony about alleged misdeeds by Democrats.

66.   The GOP majority on the House committee rammed through the impeachment articles and a similar GOP majority in the Senate conducted inconclusive hearings into campaign finance abuses.

67.   The Justice Department is investigating campaign abuses.

68.   The myriad investigations into campaign finance abuses and the contentious debate over system reforms come down to one frequently obscured but important detail.

69.   The public, long somnolent, is finally awakening to the insidious threat that campaign spending abuses pose to the heart of our democratic system.

70.   The question of precisely how Tamraz secured access to Clinton has not yet been fully answered at the Governmental Affairs Committee hearings into campaign finance abuses.