81.   But now that Republicans control of Congress, many GOP lawmakers are less than enthusiastic about the idea.

82.   But no one working on Capitol Hill seems surprised that lawmakers were among the last to appreciate the Web.

83.   But now the former Tennessee lawmaker is a hired gun -- and this is the week he must prove his worth.

84.   But other lawmakers were not optimistic.

85.   But Justice David H. Souter asked Nixon whether Missouri lawmakers were concerned not with impropriety but with protecting their political careers when they limited contributions.

86.   But lawmakers are in a feisty mood.

87.   But lawmakers are under financial pressures to act, largely because the new welfare law ends federal benefits for thousands of recipients, particularly new immigrants.

88.   But lawmakers have been unable to translate that conceptual agreement into legislative language.

89.   But lawmakers should be wary.

90.   But some lawmakers were less willing to concede jurisdiction over rights-of-way to the states.