61.   The brokerage industry has previously opposed any provision allowing punitive damages.

62.   The Bush administration opposes the provision, as does Mexican President Vicente Fox, on grounds that it would run counter to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

63.   The Clinton administration opposed those provisions.

64.   The Enron Corp. made frequent use of this sort of financing, lawyers opposing the provision have argued.

65.   The governors also oppose provisions of the House bill that would prohibit federal welfare payments to unmarried teen-age mothers and additional children born to women already receiving welfare.

66.   The HMOs oppose provisions that could apply different rules to hospitals and doctors teaming up to compete against HMOs for Medicare patients.

67.   The measure stalled after the White House opposed a provision in the House version of the legislation reducing stock sale registration filing fees.

68.   The new law allows Clinton, who opposed this provision, to suspend it for periods of six months.

69.   The provisions were opposed by members of Congress close to industrial and rural interests.

70.   The provision is opposed there by almost all Democrats and by Republicans on the Appropriations Committee, who regard it as an intrusion on their prerogatives.