101.   Hundreds of thousands more are likely to lose those bonuses as an increasing number of states begin putting the new federal welfare law to work.

102.   Hutchison voted Wednesday in favor of extending the aid to elderly and disabled legal immigrants who were due to lose their benefits under the new welfare law.

103.   If anything, the new welfare laws may have made matters worse, by inadvertently driving some eligible families off Medicaid rolls.

104.   Hyde said the problem was made more urgent by changes in the welfare law.

105.   Ideally, New York should spend the rest of this year studying the new welfare law, collecting data and coming up with contingency plans.

106.   Immigration experts say the new welfare law has made the prompt achievement of citizenship especially important to impoverished immigrants.

107.   If Congress could guarantee that the economy would remain forever strong, the new welfare law might make sense.

108.   In a sense it is odd that Clinton now takes such pride in the welfare law.

109.   In fact, had the new welfare law been in effect back then the bear by now would have used up all his lifetime benefits.

110.   In December, many White House officials urged the president to seek a two-year delay in provisions of the welfare law terminating benefits for legal immigrants.