51.   One Republican issue ad was a biography of Dole.

52.   One worrisome amendment, which passed the Senate Monday, would prohibit independent groups from using treasury money to pay for issue ads.

53.   Opponents countered that tighter restrictions on political money would weaken the political parties and raised questions about the constitutionality of proposed limits on TV issue ads.

54.   Perhaps the candidates would just become shuttlecocks battered amid a riot of citizen-financed issue ads.

55.   Republican and Democratic negotiators are seeking an agreement to place some curbs on these issue ads as part of the reform legislation.

56.   Roger Pilon, a senior fellow with the conservative CATO Institute, argued that any regulations on issue ads would clearly violate the First Amendment protection of free speech.

57.   She also said that as long as party issue ads did not expressly contain an electioneering message for a candidate they were proper.

58.   Simon said the Buckley case could be used to support both the soft money ban and the regulations on issue ads.

59.   So-called issue ads on the Internet are just the tip of the iceberg.

60.   Soft money has turned political parties into changers of money for so-called issue ads.