11.   Domenici said, for example, that Republicans expected the White House to try to steal some of their limelight by proposing to eliminate at least one Cabinet department.

12.   Duncan said his staff had studied the modern Cabinet departments and found that the growth of each had outpaced the inflation rate.

13.   Dole has vowed to eliminate four Cabinet departments.

14.   Every cabinet department has its own building in the Washington area.

15.   Five of thirteen critical spending bills have not been passed, leaving many cabinet departments and agencies without a budget for next year.

16.   He had resisted the idea of a Cabinet department focusing on domestic defense for nine months.

17.   He has led a freshman class effort to do away with four Cabinet departments.

18.   He has also promised, in several speeches, to encourage the hiring of blacks in all federal agencies and Cabinet departments.

19.   In fact, Dole has held back from an all-out assault on the federal bureaucracy, rarely mentioning his call for eliminating four cabinet departments from the executive branch.

20.   In doing so, Mr. Bush abandoned earlier opposition to creating a new Cabinet department to deal with terror.