Experience with the flood of unregulated money into politics amply justified the new law, the majority said.

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

Nor would the Democrats have been able to spend unregulated money to help her.

"His position is that all unregulated soft money is wrong for the process."

Last weekend, both campaigns agreed to stop using unregulated money.

The two national parties have already acknowledged that combined, they amassed about $50 million in unregulated money during last year's campaign.

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

The company and its executives doled out $2.4 million, more than two-thirds of it in unregulated soft money.

The bill would ban unregulated soft money, which goes to political parties rather than directly to candidates.

Each major party received more than $50 million in contributions, much of which was in unregulated money.