21.   McCain himself resisted adding election reform amendments to the campaign finance reform bill that just passed the Senate, insisting that the finance reforms come first.

22.   More procedural reforms may be coming.

23.   Reform could also come from the Judicial Conference, the forum that sets rules for judges.

24.   Reforms are coming, no doubt.

25.   Secondly, those of us at the table know that reforms come from the bottom up.

26.   Some foreigners doubt the reforms will come as quickly, or be as substantial, as the government says.

27.   Taxes are being cut, but other reforms are coming slowly, if at all.

28.   The reforms did not come easily.

29.   The Republicans, however, have demanded that reforms come first.

30.   Then came welfare reform, which forced her to go to work.