21.  The centerpiece of their bill is a ban on the unlimited soft money contributions that corporations, labor and the wealthy make to the political parties.

22.  The legislation, seven years in the making, bans the unlimited soft money contributions to national political parties that have fueled ever more expensive TV-dominated campaigns.

23.  The new McCain-Feingold bill would omit a section preventing independent groups from raising unlimited money for sham campaign ads two months before an election.

24.  The McCain-Feingold bill that bans unlimited soft money donations in federal elections passed the Senate in the spring.

25.  The vice president wants to outlaw unlimited soft money contributions to the parties by corporations, unions and wealthy individuals and to move toward full public financing.

26.  Think of the unlimited money.

27.  What the court does not do is examine and defend the substitute it has encouraged, covert speech funded by unlimited soft money.

28.  Wiping out unlimited soft money would not take all of the special interest money out of the system, McCain conceded.

29.  Yet unlimited soft money contributions seem to have become a Republican sacrament, binding big-business lobbyists and the religious right.

30.  Clinton had imposed the requirement on Lazio as a condition for her agreement on a ban of unlimited soft money donations from the race.