21.   Democratic leaders said the Republicans rejected the second administration proposal.

22.   Details of the Medicare provisions in the administration proposal show that a huge gulf still divides the two sides.

23.   --Dropped an administration proposal to seize business records with a subpoena instead of a court order, as is now required.

24.   Environmental advocates object to an administration proposal to reduce tariffs on wood products.

25.   Even the scaled-back Bush administration proposal may face obstacles in Congress.

26.   Faced with such cuts, farm and conservation groups generally applauded the administration proposal.

27.   For that reason, the leaders of environmental groups who have been successful in using the law were particularly vocal Wednesday in denouncing the administration proposal.

28.   Gephardt said other possible solutions include a Clinton administration proposal to funnel other money into the Social Security Trust Fund.

29.   Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, who had opposed the earlier Bush administration proposal, is among the Republicans who have endorsed the compromise.

30.   Gore also stated his support for a Clinton administration proposal to phase out the gasoline additive MTBE, which is manufactured in the Houston area.