41.   The passengers included top Democratic officials, such as another finance chairman, Marvin Rosen, and national finance director Richard Sullivan.

42.   The Republican slate includes Alfred S. Austin, a Tampa real estate developer, who is finance chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.

43.   The resolution of a significant ethics case against a sitting senator, especially one as powerful as Packwood, the finance committee chairman, is vital public business.

44.   The White House coffees were the brainchild of Terrence McAuliffe, the finance chairman of the Clinton-Gore campaign.

45.   Weld will be one of two national at-large finance chairmen, along with California businessman Donald Bren.

46.   A police wiretap recorded the aide, Julio Gomes dos Santos, apparently asking whether the representative paid the Senate finance committee chairman to get the project approved.

47.   And Howard H. Leach of California, an agricultural business investment banker and former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, could soon be in Paris.

48.   Barbour, a lobbyist whose clients include Microsoft, will serve as finance chairman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

49.   Butler, former finance chairman for the Nebraska Republican Party, ran for lieutenant governor in that state two years ago but lost.

50.   Evans was national finance chairman for the Bush campaign, which smashed all fund-raising records en route to the Republican presidential nomination.