51.   Budget wrangling has led to the second partial government shutdown in as many months.

52.   But administration officials say that report has been delayed because of government shutdowns and snowstorms last winter and will probably not be issued until late May or early June.

53.   But Clinton cautioned that he would not be railroaded into taking an unacceptable budget by the threat of another government shutdown.

54.   But an English journalist who needed a visa to write about the U.S. government shutdown would be told the U.S. consulate is closed.

55.   But he also outsmarted the Republicans in the showdown over the government shutdown and was the greatest Democratic fund-raiser who ever lived.

56.   But he indicated a willingness to give on some issues to avoid a government shutdown.

57.   But Eland soured on the GOP Congress over the rancorous budget debate that resulted in two government shutdowns.

58.   But GOP lawmakers remained coy about the prospect of a stopgap spending measure that would avert a government shutdown, which could occur at midnight Friday.

59.   But most members do sense that the GOP is paying a price for the excesses of the last Congress that led to two government shutdowns.