31.   But what really worries Fay more than the half cent is that the Senate bill would let the states use highway money from Washington to help finance Amtrak.

32.   But, Davis added, Clinton wants to make sure states use money from tobacco settlements for anti-smoking programs, especially those aimed at teens.

33.   But with creative accounting, states have used some of the windfall on tax cuts, roads and prisons.

34.   Clinton said she also would make sure that all states use their money under the federal program, or face losing the federal matching funds.

35.   County officials contend that they never saw new federal foster care money because the state just used it to replace its own expenditures.

36.   Currently, states use not only poverty but also geographical and political considerations in distributing Title I money, which serves about one-third of all eligible children.

37.   Convicted murderer and kidnapper Guy Stringham said he believed the state would use his sample to implicate him in crimes he did not commit.

38.   Davis fears that the states might use the money for purposes other than welfare and withhold assistance from large numbers of impoverished citizens.

39.   Dozens of federal programs will be consolidated to allow states to use that money for their own programs.

40.   Federal law forbids other states to use the New York method, but the new budget bill would have allowed New York more leeway.