41.   Failing with this ploy, Republicans then decried the reform legislation as a blow to free speech.

42.   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.

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

44.   Final talks over the reform legislation are continuing between the administration and the Senate sponsors.

45.   Feehery said reform legislation would be moving faster if Democrats had agreed with the GOP on the composition of a select committee on the issue.

46.   Foreshadowing the looming Senate battle on campaign finance reform, the committee probing campaign abuses and expert witnesses wrestled Wednesday with the nuances of reform legislation.

47.   Gore, they say, has supported campaign reform legislation since his earliest days in Congress.

48.   Gingrich and Lott, knowing they cannot defeat the reform legislation on the floor, must now focus on watering it down or bottling it up.

49.   Halting these programs for legal immigrants was a primary feature of welfare reform legislation passed by the GOP Congress and signed by Clinton last fall.

50.   He continues to champion campaign finance reform legislation that has been treated as anathema by Republican Senate leaders.