91.   Last week, Republicans went on the offensive against McCain, repeatedly asking him to defend charges he has made that the campaign finance system had led to corruption.

92.   Like their brethren on the Supreme Court, many members of the House and the Senate agree that the current campaign finance system is badly flawed.

93.   McCain also promoted Lazio as a staunch advocate of overhauling the campaign finance system.

94.   McCall has denied any link between donations and matters involving his office, noting that he has long been a strong supporter of overhauling the campaign finance system.

95.   McConnell, however, is better known for his filibusters than for his legislative proposals to change the campaign finance system.

96.   McCain also disputed allegations from the Bush camp that his support for overhauling the campaign finance system would endanger the Republican Party.

97.   McCain, who has emerged as a potent rival to Bush in New Hampshire, trumpeted his prescriptions to reform the campaign finance system.

98.   Mr. White is offering his own proposal, in which an independent commission would come up with a plan to overhaul the campaign finance system.

99.   Morris countered that the president should opt out of the public finance system and forgo any federal matching dollars.

100.   Neither could they raise the minimum wage, force tobacco companies to settle or overhaul the campaign finance system.