1.   An even more signature issue for the president is tax reduction, and in this respect his budget is optimistic, in both economic and political terms.

2.   And he has scheduled several campaign finance reform events in the coming weeks, including one later this week, to highlight an unbreakable commitment to his signature issue.

3.   Bradley has so fizzled that even on his signature issue, health care, voters were more likely to say that the vice president had the preferable plan.

4.   Both parties lost their signature issues this year.

5.   Both sides have pledged to devote substantial resources to early childhood education, an important issue to Gore and almost a signature issue for George W. Bush.

6.   Bush initially opposed the bill, which was a signature issue for his former nemesis, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

7.   But her signature issues have been education and health care.

8.   But the encouragement and government funding of faith-based programs was a signature campaign issue for Bush, who has described himself as a born-again Christian.

9.   Card said the nightly themes were enlargements of signature issues for Bush, as derived from his stump speeches.

10.   During the presidential campaign last year, Bush made vouchers and student testing signature issues of his White House bid.