1.   As the Senate faced a stalemate, its committee investigating campaign- finance abuses signaled that its hearings in the next few weeks would include high-profile witnesses.

2.   Attorney General Janet Reno and a House investigating committee approached a showdown Tuesday over whether she should ask for an independent counsel to prosecute campaign finance abuses.

3.   A House committee investigating campaign finance abuses heard from three witnesses Thursday who said they were illegally reimbursed for donating large sums to the Democratic Party last year.

4.   Aides hinted that what he had in mind might be his own investigation into finance abuses.

5.   Aides said the committee, the main House vehicle for investigating campaign finance abuses, had become an embarrassment to the Republicans.

6.   Burton had called the hearing to seek immunity for four witnesses connected to alleged campaign finance abuses.

7.   But it also got them into a Senate hearing on campaign finance abuses.

8.   But law enforcement officials concluded that he was not a major figure in campaign finance abuses.

9.   By the time she excused the fund-raising phone calls, she had already found insufficient evidence to support such an appointment on a host of other campaign finance abuses.

10.   Campaign finance abuses do not rank high on the national scale of voter concerns.