61.   Senate Republicans said Thursday that any legislation adding drug benefits to Medicare should be tied to larger changes in the program, intended to control costs and promote competition.

62.   Shippers have complained that the Surface Transportation Board has favored the railroads and not always promoted real competition adequately.

63.   Slater is expected to say that the new research lays the economic and legal foundation for the Transportation Department to use its authority more aggressively to promote competition.

64.   That directive, along with another that scrapped traditional regulation for telephone service in favor of a scheme also designed to promote more competition, are considered national pacesetters.

65.   That legislation was designed to promote competition in the phone and media industries.

66.   That includes dealing with cellular telephone tower-siting problems and promoting competition in the cable TV business.

67.   That would reduce the national debt while promoting competition.

68.   The act was passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton as the best way to promote competition in the telecommunications marketplace.

69.   The center is a consumer organization promoting competition on the Internet.