1.   An existing law specifically bans foreign contributions to candidates, and the FEC has ruled that the statute also applies to unregulated soft money given to political parties.

2.   Another group, called the Better America Foundation, was shut down by Dole earlier this year after criticism that it accepted unregulated money.

3.   A difference between the bills is how they deal with unregulated money.

4.   But in Kentucky, Republicans are spending thousands of dollars in unregulated soft money to pay for ads attacking Democratic Senate candidate Scott Baesler for supporting NAFTA.

5.   Doing so would have enabled them to raise huge sums of unregulated money.

6.   He has repeatedly criticized Clinton for what he has described as campaign finance abuses, in particular, her use of committees that collect largely unregulated soft money.

7.   In the spring, Reno rejected calls for an independent counsel, saying that the funds being solicited were unregulated soft money contributions.

8.   Most big-money donations to the political parties are unregulated soft money.

9.   Polls show that people are distressed that millions of dollars of unregulated money has seeped into campaigns.

10.   Reno said earlier this year that an independent counsel was unwarranted because the funds Gore raised were believed to be unregulated soft money.