31.   Democrats said they would now try to attach campaign finance legislation to all other bills that the Senate might vote on this year.

32.   Democrats in Oregon predicted that Smith would try to take credit for breaking the logjam on campaign finance legislation.

33.   Despite the recent enormous concentration on campaign finance reform legislation, however, this new method of counting has only incidental connection to money.

34.   During his Senate career, Dole repeatedly joined other Republicans in killing or delaying campaign finance legislation.

35.   Earlier this year, the Senate failed to enact campaign finance overhaul legislation that would have banned soft money.

36.   Even Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has been fighting such campaign finance legislation for more than a decade, conceded defeat.

37.   Even as lawyers and lawmakers prepared to attack the new bill, others clamored for further campaign finance legislation.

38.   Feingold, up for re-election this year, was the Democratic champion of campaign finance reform legislation that would have sharply restricted issue advocacy if enacted.

39.   Feingold was the chief Democratic sponsor of campaign finance reform legislation in the Senate.

40.   For years comprehensive campaign finance legislation died in Republican-led filibusters in the Senate.