51.   After months of delays, the Senate has finally begun its debate on campaign finance.

52.   After the meeting, spokesmen for Bush and the speaker both played down the session, though acknowledging that campaign finance had come up.

53.   After years of taking part in their politically charged dinner-table debates, he recently expressed an interest in campaign finance.

54.   Aides to the president say that despite the preoccupation here with news about campaign finances, his comments and appearances filter through the Beltway.

55.   All three of the Democratic candidates released information Monday on their campaign finances.

56.   Both are individualists willing to go against the grain of their parties, and they have earned the enmity of many of their fellow senators on campaign finance.

57.   Both candidates have used campaign finance as fodder for their attacks.

58.   Brown says that the trouble today stems from the fact Congress has done virually nothing about campaign finance since.

59.   Buchanan sought to portray his interest in overhauling campaign finance and lobbying laws as meshing with the conservative and populist tone of his campaign.

60.   Bunning, a conservative Republican with a strong anti-abortion stand, has not been outspoken on campaign finance but agrees with McConnell that the law should remain intact.