21.   As a campaign issue, tax relief can help or haunt candidates.

22.   As he spoke, investigations were gearing up into the campaign financing issue.

23.   As a campaign issue, tobacco control traditionally has carried little weight with voters.

24.   As the day wore on, the Republican sharpened his rhetoric on the campaign funding issue.

25.   As the Democratic Convention kicks off, President Bill Clinton has made under-age smoking a campaign issue after approving regulations to curb advertising and sale of cigarettes to teenagers.

26.   At least three pieces of legislation involving campaign finance issues are expected to be introduced in the House this year.

27.   Assembly Republican Minority Leader John Faso made it clear that this would be a campaign issue.

28.   At a news conference on Capitol Hill, Rep. John Bryant, D-Dallas, said the bill was written to create a campaign issue for Dole.

29.   Badly burned every time they have touched Social Security in the past, Republican congressional leaders worry that the president would rather have a campaign issue than a law.

30.   Bob Dole is making drugs a campaign issue.