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Democratic lawmakers dependent on financial corporations hamstring their party's approach to financial services reform.

Democratic lawmakers dependent on  pharmaceutical and health-insurance corporations hamstring their party's approach to health-care reform.

The legislation would effectively dismantle Albany's existing campaign finance system, in which corporations and labor unions deposit millions of dollars into central housekeeping accounts controlled by party leaders, who then use that money to finance individual candidates, making rank-and-file lawmakers dependent on the leaders.

That deal, negotiated by Representative Rick Boucher, a conservative Democrat from Virginia's coal country, won the support of the Edison Electric Institute, the utility industry lobby, and lawmakers from regions dependent on coal for electricity.

Ms. Krueger recommends rules changes, to open up the legislative process, and campaign finance reform, so lawmakers would be less dependent on the favor of their leaders and on lobbyists and special interests that perpetuate the system by overwhelmingly favoring incumbents.

They were dependent on no one.

But Mr. Robertson differs with Mr. Kelberman and other critics who say the legislature needs to be made a full-time body with enough professional staff to reduce the lawmakers' risk of becoming overly dependent on lobbyists.

Mr. Thomas did not embrace the details of Mr. Bush's solvency plan, but he did express support for its underlying idea: that lawmakers should protect those most dependent on Social Security from any cuts while curtailing the growth in benefits for middle- and upper-income people.

That procedure is dependent on no lawmaker entering an objection, but Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said last week he intended to block the bill.

The one is dependent on the other".

* At least one million dependent on aid.