1.   An influential federal advisory commission recommended last month that the government increase Medicare payments to doctors, hospitals, home care agencies and health maintenance organizations.

2.   And she has served on special federal commissions on intellectual property, privacy and encryption.

3.   Approvals are still needed from three federal commissions and the National Park Service.

4.   Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who also lobbied the federal commission to grant the market controls, said the commission must now agree to penalties for price-gougers.

5.   Both entities will be subject to regulation by the federal commission, which must approve their formation before the state can implement its market plans.

6.   -- A federal commission would specify a standard package of benefits for most people under the mainstream plan and Cooper-Grandy.

7.   -- Create a federal commission to study price hikes in the insurance industry and create annual reports on those increases.

8.   A federal advisory commission inched toward a fragile consensus Tuesday on a plan to redesign Medicare as a marketplace in which the government would compete with private insurers.

9.   A federal advisory commission, on the other hand, also wants prescriptions covered but would reorganize Medicare to put the insurance function into the hands of private companies.

10.   A federal base closing commission voted to close Savanna in June.