11.   Federal funding cuts could put Texas schools in a bind as budgets shrink and enrollment grows.

12.   Federal funding cuts and changes freeing states to manage welfare programs as they like will mean more business for Maximus and other consulting and management firms, analysts said.

13.   Funding cuts impact the quality of public education.

14.   Funding cuts set the stage for this tragedy, but educational fads played a role as well.

15.   Government officials say that funding cuts to these programs are painful but inevitable in an era when state and federal politicians are struggling to balance their budgets.

16.   He also pledged to restore funding cut by the Clinton administration for federal anti-drug efforts.

17.   He cites Snee Farm in Mount Pleasant, S.C. as one park that would be ripe for funding cuts.

18.   House and Senate Republicans also want to impose a crippling funding cut on the Federal Election Commission, the agency charged with enforcing campaign finance laws.

19.   However, the arts and humanities agencies face tougher scrutiny in the House than in the Senate, and funding cuts, if not their elimination, seem inevitable.

20.   In addition to funding cuts, Congress is moving ahead on plans to form a National Park Review Commission.