71.   Conservative state Rep. Gary McPherson announced after the shootings that he was also tabling his bill to bar local governments from having gun control restrictions.

72.   Constitutional strictures exist precisely to constrain government from wielding arbitrary powers.

73.   Current law prohibits the federal government from directly financing abortions in foreign countries.

74.   Daws contends political considerations have prevented the Japanese government from acknowledging its soldiers carried out war crimes against POWs.

75.   Danish newspapers have reported that a letter to the government from the refugee agency questions whether some of the new moves violate international conventions.

76.   DeLay said he also distinguishes the Beijing government from ordinary Chinese people.

77.   Dean said he favored a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution but added that it must also prohibit the federal government from shifting costs to the states.

78.   Democrats maintain the best way to protect Social Security is to keep the federal government from dipping into the so-called retirement trust fund to pay for other programs.

79.   Education Department officials and Kennedy each had argued insistently that the language in the bill would have prevented the federal government from getting its own money back.

80.   Election laws forbid the government from announcing new policy measures that could influence voters.