21.   Pension spending has increased because the state has deliberately chosen to speed up its pension funding schedule, a move that was applauded as fiscally sound by Wall Street.

22.   Parents who are against charter schools say they object only to the way the state has chosen to pay for them.

23.   Rather, the Republican compromise would allow states to choose from a list of possible benefit packages.

24.   Since the Civil War, all states have chosen electors by popular vote.

25.   Still, the actual impact of legislation on health insurance costs would depend at least to some degree on how states choose to regulate their insurance markets.

26.   The actual inspections would be conducted by either state or county social workers or private inspectors depending on which system the state chooses.

27.   The bill would allow states to choose whether to use Medicaid money to pay for abortions in the case of rape or incest.

28.   The bill also says states can choose to participate in the subsidy program or not, though it is likely that most would join.

29.   The Constitution did not require that the states all choose their electors on the same day.

30.   The other set of numbers could, if the states so choose, be used to draw congressional and state legislative districts.