1.   Among the unresolved budget issues are whether the Republicans would drop their push for a contentious series of environmental provisions.

2.   And promised environmental provisions were not carried out, damaging streams and wetlands.

3.   But instead, the new law contains environmental provisions that environmental groups dismissed as a sham.

4.   But Sweeney said he thought Clinton might submit a reformulated proposal this year to include labor, human rights and environmental provisions favored by the union movement.

5.   Clinton also waived several environmental provisions in the bill that he opposed.

6.   GOP hard-liners want the measure to include tax cuts and environmental provisions that President Clinton believes are irresponsible.

7.   He said Republicans might have to consider a rollback of the gas tax or temporarily suspending some environmental provisions to address supply bottlenecks.

8.   Hotly disputed environmental provisions that the House had at first included in the bill but later repudiated were stripped from the bill by the conference committee.

9.   House Republican leaders initially tried to exclude environmental provisions from the bill, but Senate passage was impossible without them.

10.   Labor has long maintained that fast track legislation would have promoted global trade without adequate wage, safety and environmental provisions.