Ms Bonino, a 50-year-old of libertarian views, is not the sole soft-issue champion within the commission.

ECONOMIST: Emma Bonino, Europe??s commissioner for the future

In my years of experience marketing brokerage services, virtually the only time I have found a single broker-dealer as a commission recapture or soft dollar broker for a fund is what it is an affiliated broker-dealer of the consultant of the fund.

FORBES: Consultants With Affiliated Broker-Dealers: How Independent Is Their Advice? (April 1, 1996 )

With prospects dimming that Congress will pass campaign finance reform this year, President Bill Clinton is expected in the coming weeks to petition the Federal Election Commission to ban so-called soft money contributions.

CNN: AllPolitics - Clinton Wrapping Up "Soft Money" Proposal