1.   And to fight voter fraud, she favored a bill that would require all people registering to vote in a federal election to provide their Social Security numbers.

2.   A clear majority favors the bill in the Senate, where it would pass if Trent Lott, the majority leader, permitted a vote.

3.   Bush has declined to say whether he favors the bill, only that he would consider it if it lands on his desk.

4.   But Don Pride, communications director of the Florida Insurance Commission and the Department of Insurance, said Commissioner Bill Nelson strongly favors the bill.

5.   But Jane Pearce, another Sacramento family law lawyer, said she favored the bills.

6.   But those who favor the bill counter that the regulations themselves cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

7.   Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Detroit favors the bill.

8.   Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, also favors the bill in concept, but aides said he would not comment on it until his lawyers had read it.

9.   He said he would favor a bill in the next Congress that would ban the procedure except when the health or life of the mother is at risk.

10.   In the very first minute of the meeting, though, Gore said he already favored the bill.