101.   Campaigning for presidential elections in May will begin after the New Year, and lawmakers may be unwilling to carry out the sale, analysts said.

102.   California lawmakers may not be able to put together recovery packages for troubled Orange and Los Angeles Counties in the current legislative session because Gov. Pete Wilson opposes them.

103.   Canadian government bonds fell amid fading optimism that the White House and Republican lawmakers are near agreement on how to balance the U.S. budget.

104.   Capitol offices are reserved for top House leaders in both parties, so most rank-and-file lawmakers were nowhere near the shooting.

105.   Certainly, the lawmakers are terrified of the prospect that the governor might go ahead with his court fight and strip them of their budget-making powers.

106.   By this time the lawmakers were aghast, reduced to nonpartisan silence.

107.   Changes in the tax code that help families invariably reduce federal revenue at a time when lawmakers are under pressure to cut the federal deficit.

108.   Coleman acknowledged that lawmakers have long been concerned about unauthorized transfers of money at the department.

109.   Colorado lawmakers are understandably jumpy on this subject since the Columbine High School tragedy.

110.   Connolly was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Lora Fox Martin because the former lawmaker once had been a law partner of San Diego District Attorney Paul Pfignst.