11.   Among the most controversial provisions is the GOP plan to change the structure of welfare programs from entitlements to block grants.

12.   Among other things, Washington provides substantial support for tribal education, housing, welfare programs and law enforcement.

13.   Among the Ashcroft provisions Dole and Packwood agreed to include was one allowing states to contract with charitable organizations and other groups to administer welfare programs.

14.   An innovative plan to streamline and privatize Texas welfare programs is stalled at the White House, where labor leaders are pressuring President Clinton to scrap the proposal.

15.   And a third would create a single block grant from a variety of foster care and other child welfare programs.

16.   And one night, a pair of homeless men who had been dropped from the welfare program lit a fire for warmth in an abandoned house and died.

17.   And he wanted to create a much more restrictive welfare program that would ultimately remove thousands from assistance.

18.   And most states have already begun work on electronic systems for a range of welfare programs.

19.   And Schwartz said city and state officials hope to eventually include people who receive money under the much larger federal welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children.

20.   And the GOP wants to severely cut back the Aid to Families with Dependent Children welfare program.