The growing reliance on outside money shows the increasingly national scope of Senate races.

"But this project is important to the public, so we are going through with the study with or without outside federal money."

But outside help in the Mississippi race was not limited to outside money.

Weiss knew that if they wanted to create a really good school, they'd have to find outside money.

"For anybody to get one-third of my outside money is totally absurd."

Members do not want to give up the outside money without a raise.

Then there was a reliance on outside money and resources.

For now, Butte is not short of outside money.

"That will only be proven after the outside money is gone."

His trust is seeking outside money, but without much success.