11.   Money does disproportionately influence public policy.

12.   One organization that has drawn a similar conclusion is Common Cause, a public interest group in Washington that studies how money influences federal legislation.

13.   Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the principal sponsor of major campaign finance reform legislation, acknowledged that special interest money influences policy-making in Congress.

14.   The Riady family has been a key target of both the House and Senate investigations into whether foreign money influenced the last election.

15.   Their money influences constitutional assemblies and determines elections.

16.   This money influences the political process.

17.   But it denies the money influenced its report on police action against the Copts in the Egyptian village of el-Kusheh.

18.   But it denies the money influenced its report on the arrest and alleged torture of scores of Coptic Christians in the southern village of el-Kusheh in August.

19.   He denied that the money influenced team selection.

20.   He said his decision was not influenced by money.