1.   And Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, whose department oversees the FDA, has contacted key players in Congress about drafting legislation.

2.   Bingo and similar games of chance are regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs, but a consumer affairs spokeswoman said her department oversees only charity games.

3.   But on the question of affirmative action, which touches many programs her department oversees, Chao speaks comfortably and expansively.

4.   Congress wants to reorganize the Department of Energy in order to increase security at the nuclear weapons laboratories and production plants that the department oversees.

5.   Her department oversees the FDA.

6.   Milelli, whose department oversees animal care, said he already has decided to recommend that Wagner be charged with animal cruelty.

7.   Sources familiar with the decision said Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, whose department oversees the ATF, took the unusual step of reviewing the proposal himself.

8.   Technically, this will require Bruce Babbitt, whose interior department oversees mining, to impose a moratorium on new claims.

9.   The agency regulates such disparate issues as price supports for farmers, food safety and national forests, which the department oversees through the Forest Service.

10.   The department would oversee training and help participating doctors through the inevitable federal inspections.