SHOW ME THE MONEY--Vice President Al Gore, seen in this 1996 FILE PHOTO, has defended his role in soliciting donations from his White House office. Gore said that "everything I did, I understood to be lawful." However he said that he would not do it again. Gore's fund-raising is the latest problem facing the Clinton adminstration's battle over the propriety of it's campaign financing.

HEALTH PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM--Ohio House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson uses a drafting table as a podium as she makes remarks during the announcement of a Health Partnership Program (HPP) at the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, March 4, 1997. The medical management of newly filed workers' claims is now handled by private Managed Care Organizations (MCOs).

CUFFS FOR PUFFS--Robert Kampia uses handcuffs as a prop as he speaks to a group of medical marijuana supporters outside the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, March 4, 1997. Kampia who is Director of Government Relations for the Washington, D.C. based Marijuana Policy Project, was due to testify before the Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee in opposition to S.B. 2 which would strike the current provision of Ohio Law which permits marijuana use for medical reasons.