1.   Democrats and Republicans have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in these essentially unregulated funds during the last few years.

2.   Hedge funds are unregulated funds that can invest with fewer restrictions than mutual funds.

3.   Most hedge funds are, in fact, largely unregulated private funds that usually invest in stocks.

4.   The fireworks start Monday in the Senate over measures to severely restrict the flow of unregulated funds to politicians.

5.   The McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, which would ban the unregulated funds called soft money, stalled in Congress earlier this year.

6.   The McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, which would ban the unregulated funds, called soft money, stalled in Congress earlier this year.

7.   That is the unregulated funds that corporations, unions and individuals provide the national parties.