41.   Our national debt should be reduced, our transportation infrastructure repaired and the Social Security system reformed.

42.   Proponents of the bill argued drastic measures are needed to reform a system they say creates dependency.

43.   Prime Minister Alain Juppe has pledged to reform the system early next year.

44.   Proponents of the amendment, including many doctors, said it is needed to keep health care costs down and to reform the system.

45.   Reforming the system could be painful.

46.   Republican senators plan to start closed-door negotiations in the week ahead over a welfare-funding dispute that has delayed Senate action on reforming the system for a month.

47.   Rarely mentioned during the debate over reforming the system are the countless hours that public officials consume in the hunt for these donations.

48.   Texas is one of a few states that has reformed its system in recent years.

49.   The banking system is being reformed.

50.   The big question is, how can this system be reformed?