1.   And extending unemployment benefits, which are funded through payroll taxes, may worsen it.

2.   Benefits should be extended as long as necessary until we get it right.

3.   - Unemployment benefits should be extended to newly unemployed part-time workers who currently are ineligible.

4.   Bush is expected to call for new plans to extend Medicare benefits to include prescription drugs and to seek further tax cuts.

5.   Clinton wants the benefits extended to seven years because it takes five years to become a U.S. citizen.

6.   Critics of the new law say it will cost states billions each year to extend such benefits to everyone who will have to move off welfare.

7.   Cuomo took steps earlier this year to extend health insurance benefits to the unmarried domestic partners of state workers.

8.   DiZoglio said the officials also promised to look into extending unemployment benefits because of the extraordinary circumstances.

9.   Disney was boycotted, too, for making movies for grown-ups that the right disliked and for extending benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian employees.

10.   Democratic lawmakers like Rep. Henry Waxman of California pushed to extend Medicaid benefits to millions of pregnant women, young children and teen-agers.