71.   Bush retreated to his ranch, meeting with House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to discuss Republican legislative priorities for the new Congress.

72.   Bush, who placed education legislation atop his first-year list of legislative priorities, is expected to sign the bill into law within days.

73.   Business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable have made passage of the trade bill their top legislative priority of the year.

74.   Collins said his legislative priorities include funding school construction, helping the elderly and examining the property tax system.

75.   Democrats announced shortly after gaining Senate control last month that they would make the measure their first legislative priority, and debate is scheduled to begin on Tuesday.

76.   For businesses, killing ergonomics was near the top of the list of legislative priorities.

77.   He became majority leader when the Democrats gained control of the Senate earlier this month and instantly made the HMO legislation his top legislative priority.

78.   He has called it one of his top legislative priorities.

79.   His comments come two days after Dole made lifting of the United Nations arms embargo against Bosnia one of his first legislative priorities in the new Congress.

80.   Labor has made defeat of the China trade bill a top legislative priority.