61.   As an unpaid adviser to the state legislature, I am deeply involved in the quest to make every Floridian have his or her own specialty license plate.

62.   As several mayors before him, Giuliani has not persuaded the state legislature to shoulder the entire local share, a practice that is common across the country.

63.   As it stands, only a few state legislatures have begun to address Internet voting.

64.   At least a dozen bills before the state legislature would address perceived weaknesses in domestic violence laws.

65.   At least nine state legislatures have decreed that noncustodial parents, usually fathers, can be ordered to help pay for college.

66.   At least a dozen other state legislatures are weighing similar measures.

67.   At a time when anti-abortion forces are successfully pushing new and restrictive laws in state legislatures, the president has taken a principled stand.

68.   At the same time that voters elected him, they increased the Republican hold on the state legislature and chose Republican Jerry W. Kilgore as state attorney general.

69.   At the same time, the powerful gun industry has prevailed on state legislatures to prevent such lawsuits.

70.   At issue is whether state legislatures in Louisiana and Georgia violated the rights of white voters in creating predominantly black voting districts.