41.   It recovered from its session lows after the House passed the bill to end the partial government shutdown.

42.   Lawmakers declined to say if Congress would pass another stopgap spending measure to avert a partial government shutdown beginning Saturday.

43.   Many key government measures of manufacturing health were delayed by two partial federal government shutdowns.

44.   Meanwhile, federal workers who had expected to begin digging through a backlog of work caused by the partial government shutdown were digging through snowdrifts instead.

45.   Nine days ago, after a partial government shutdown, the White House and Congress reached an agreement to end the impasse.

46.   On a parallel front, Senate Republican leader Bob Dole and Senate Democratic leader Thomas Daschle will take another crack at trying to end a record partial government shutdown.

47.   On the budget front, President Bill Clinton spoke to Republican leaders in Congress today in search of an agreement that could end the partial government shutdown.

48.   Participants gave no details, although they said they face some tough choices as the budget impasse, and the resulting partial government shutdown, continue.

49.   Only at that point, he said, would House Republicans be willing to end the partial government shutdown.

50.   Passage of the GOP plan eased, but did not erase, the three-week-old partial government shutdown.