11.   Weld maintains the race will stay on the substantive policy issues and not delve into personal charges or broadsides on ethics.

12.   But while the House bill strips HHS of all its authority over substantive policy issues, the Kennedy-Frist measure seeks a compromise.

13.   Lake said Japan will have to present more substantive deregulatory policies than it has shown so far in order to persuade the U.S. to make an agreement.

14.   Meanwhile, Congress is considering a complete overhaul of transplant law that would strip HHS of virtually all power over substantive policy decisions.

15.   That latter necessity saw Bush, in his first substantive policy move as president, imposing restrictions on international family-planning groups that support abortion rights.

16.   The measure, revoking rules issued late in the Clinton administration, was the first substantive policy that Bush signed into law.

17.   The repeal, backed heartily by businesses, was the first substantive policy that Bush signed into law.