1.   The budget clash resulted in a partial shutdown at the passport agency.

2.   As the budget impasse continues to hold up separate spending bills, so does the partial shutdown of government.

3.   Because federal employees and many voters would be inconvenienced, such a partial shutdown of government is usually very brief.

4.   Because of the partial shutdown of the federal government stemming from the budget stalemate, government reports on economic statistics scheduled for release this week will not be available.

5.   Before the three-week partial shutdown that shuttered government agencies, the Labor Department was set to release the December producer price index today.

6.   Both sides claimed victory in the settlement Sunday that ended the six-day partial shutdown of the government.

7.   Both sides claimed victory in the settlement on Sunday night that ended the six-day partial shutdown of the government, the longest in history.

8.   Both the president and GOP congressional leaders are vowing to avoid the stalemate over spending priorities that provoked two partial shutdowns of federal operations last year.

9.   -- The Senate is expected to approve and send to Clinton the continuing resolution passed last week by the House to avoid a partial shutdown.

10.   A short time later, he met with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to try to avert a partial shutdown of the government.