71.   Democrats have refused to support reform bills that do not limit campaign spending.

72.   Defense lawyers support the bill.

73.   Democrats overwhelmingly support a bill to eliminate soft money and tighten independent expenditures.

74.   DiFrancesco said that he did not want to support a bill that eliminated the caps.

75.   Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary-designate, supports the bill.

76.   Democrats were expected to break ranks in substantial numbers to support the bill, which White House officials said President Clinton would veto should it reach his desk.

77.   Democrats will likely support the bill.

78.   Dianne Wilkerson, a state senator from Massachusetts who supported the bill, said it was the first in the nation to include gender as a concern.

79.   Dingwall, who has held that Canadians overwhelmingly support the bill for health reasons, said the new legislation would withstand any court challenge.

80.   Each branch accused the other of supporting a bill that was too vague about which communications should be considered confidential.