51.   For more than a decade, advocates of overhauling the campaign finance system have been waiting for their moment.

52.   For the fourth year in a row, Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked final votes on legislation to overhaul the campaign finance system.

53.   Former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., devoted years to scorning the campaign finance system as riddled with loopholes and ruled by wealthy interests.

54.   For reformers, a congressional investigation would put the spotlight on what they believe to be a thoroughly corrupt campaign finance system.

55.   For the fourth year in a row, Senate Republicans have blocked a final vote on legislation to overhaul the campaign finance system.

56.   Former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey devoted years to scorning the campaign finance system as riddled with loopholes and ruled by wealthy interests.

57.   Forty-two percent of Americans said the campaign finance system has so much wrong with it that it needs to be completely overhauled.

58.   Hagel said he agreed that the campaign finance system needed to be changed and that he believed McCain had embarked on a noble cause.

59.   Gingrich in the past has resisted changes in the campaign finance system, but Tuesday he said he would welcome a comprehensive approach that put curbs on independent expenditures.

60.   Having witnessed the good the school finance system has done in Edgewood, Rodriguez cannot understand why the wealthy districts are trying to change the system again.