It is not illegal for a member of Congress to stroll around, while the House is in session, distributing goodies from the big-money interests.

The chairmen of both parties pledged to throw big-money interests out of politics, then disagreed over what a big-money interest was.

But he could not undo his own fatal attraction to big-money special interests, his alliance with the most conservative elements in his party or his abrasive style.

You are talking about the unbelievable power that big-money interests have over every legislative decision.

"It's the big-money interests that control the political process," said the party's candidate for Council president, Rafael Mendez.

Every year, he demanded restrictions on the power of big-money special interests to buy favors at election time; every year, the effort fizzled.

The Government does nothing to stop the fires because there are big-money interests involved.

These politicians are bought off by big-money interests.

But offstage, Clinton took pains to establish a cordial and lucrative relationship with the big-money interests against whom he was railing.

A Brown administration would be fiercely independent of big-money interests, strongly pro-consumer, the most exciting since Jack Kennedy and the most experimental since Franklin Roosevelt.