31.   All the major health care bills would establish federal standards for private health insurance.

32.   All the major environmental statutes delegate enforcement to the states as long as the states meet Federal standards.

33.   All baggage screeners, public or private, will have to abide by strict federal standards.

34.   All bottled water distributors - including those intrastate and not subject to FDA scrutiny - must also meet state regulations that mirror or exceed federal standards.

35.   Both Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. exactly meet the federal standards.

36.   Bush met at the White House with Rep. Charlie Norwood, the Republican leader of a six-year congressional effort to set strict federal standards for health insurance.

37.   Bush and many Republicans reportedly favor setting federal standards for the screeners and possibly even paying for them but allowing private firms to hire and supervise the workers.

38.   But advocates of stricter privacy protections at the state level say that a federal standard would be preferable to a hodge-podge of state laws.

39.   But both the Pataki and Giuliani administrations have resisted using alternative activities to work to meet the federal standard.

40.   But by building a lot of dual-fuel vehicles, the automakers could protect themselves from all but the most stringent changes in federal standards.