1.   Daschle listed overhaul of campaign finance laws as an early and paramount priority.

2.   Democrats want to look into the entirety of campaign finance law.

3.   For more than four years, President Clinton has talked about reforming campaign finance laws.

4.   The Justice Department says all this was legal, denying that it involved wholesale and flagrant violations of the campaign finance laws.

5.   The Mayor was accused of breaking campaign finance laws.

6.   There is no better way to reduce those doubts than by acting swiftly to pass clear and tough campaign finance reform laws.

7.   The reformers believe these problems could be solved through reform of campaign finance laws.

8.   Along the way, loose interpretation of campaign finance laws by Republicans and Democrats alike effectively erased the last fragments of campaign finance reforms from the post-Watergate era.

9.   And it gives the secretary of state the power to enforce campaign laws by imposing fines and other penalties.