1.   Although White House officials attacked the bill passed Thursday, members of both parties held out some hope for a compromise on marriage penalty relief this year.

2.   A newly married couple who buy a house and deduct the mortgage interest get no marriage penalty relief, he points out, while those who rent do.

3.   It would add marriage penalty relief and a tax refund for low-income workers.

4.   Republicans are hopeful that popular measures, such as the marriage penalty relief, will bring minority members on board.

5.   Republicans in Congress are pressing hard for marriage penalty relief this year, but are pushing for a much bigger package than what the president proposed.

6.   The Democratic alternative would have set individual income tax rate reductions, modified the earned income tax credit and provided marriage penalty relief.

7.   While polls showed last year that voters had no appetite for a massive tax cut, individual items -- especially the marriage penalty relief -- are very popular.

8.   Democrats planned a series of amendments, including efforts to accelerate marriage penalty relief while cutting upper-income taxes less.

9.   Democrats prefer a more generous prescription drug benefit than Republicans, while the GOP wants marriage penalty relief to be deeper and affect more people than Clinton wants.

10.   He mentioned inheritance tax and marriage penalty relief as examples.