1.   Although President Clinton criticized the House tax cut proposal Wednesday, he stopped well short of a veto threat.

2.   Ankrom, a Democrat, said the party asked him to analyze the tax cut proposals.

3.   Administration officials were cool toward the spending cut proposal, which comes at time when they are pushing for increases for defense and education.

4.   Bush has previously discussed the tax cut proposals that were in his speech, but the other proposals Tuesday were unveiled for the first time.

5.   Bush and his supporters, as CNN reported, suggest his tax cut proposal would be an insurance policy against an economic downturn.

6.   But he said he still held out the right to veto entire tax cut proposals.

7.   Clinton has characterized the spending cut proposal as irresponsible, saying that it would have an adverse impact on defense and child care programs.

8.   Cuomo administration officials acknowledged that state budget analysts had reviewed the Pataki tax cut proposal, but they said reviews of outside proposals are commonplace.

9.   GOP lawmakers sought to paper over differences with House counterparts by adding a trimmed-back tax cut proposal late in the day.

10.   He held out his own tax cut proposals for education and child rearing as preferable.