21.   PRODUCT LIABILITY LIMITS Congressional negotiators reached final agreement on a compromise measure to limit suits involving faulty products.

22.   Republicans offered a compromise measure that included some restrictions on gun sales at pawn shops and gun shows, but did not go as far as the Lautenberg amendment.

23.   Sen. Ted Stevens presents a compromise right-of-way measure to the House.

24.   Senate Republicans want the compromise measure to include Medical Savings Accounts, but Kennedy opposes the tax-free accounts and has refused to budge.

25.   Some experts see it as a compromise measure against behavior that may be disturbing but not impeachable.

26.   Still, gay-rights groups oppose compromise measures.

27.   The agreement was reached during a conference committee where House and Senate lawmakers merge their two bills into a compromise measure.

28.   The compromise measure would also retain a tax on expensive premiums to control health care costs.

29.   The compromise measure would ammend the two-year budget that was passed by Democrats over the weekend and that many had feared Rowland would veto.

30.   The compromise measure would scale back the bill vetoed by the president last year.