1.   Barbour is now Republican national chairman, and Stevens went on to a string of successful campaigns, including those of Sens.

2.   An upstate Republican county chairman put it more bluntly.

3.   And Haley Barbour, the Republican national chairman, asserted that it was simply too early to be thinking about polls.

4.   Another Republican state chairman, Mike Francis of Louisiana, called outright for change at the top of the party.

5.   As a result, the Republican chairman actually assigns committee staffers to work for Democratic members.

6.   As Reich tells it, US Representative Jim Saxton, the Republican chairman, flayed him mercilessly.

7.   At least John Kasich, the new Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, says the Pentagon budget should be closely reviewed.

8.   Bill Brock, the former senator from Tennessee and former Republican chairman whose commission produced the plan, said Rove had given him the same explanation.

9.   Bill Thomas, the Republican chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has, together with three Democrats, put together a compromise TPA bill.

10.   A former Republican chairman of Essex County, he has long been active in campaign fund-raising circles for prominent Republicans, including Gov. Thomas Kean.