1.   And because enforcement increased the price of drugs, Sperling said, users were forced to commit crimes to get the money.

2.   Clinton will talk about that agenda in his State of the Union address at the end of January, Sperling said.

3.   Sperling said the president had been mulling over the idea for nearly a year and had first raised it in December during budget negotiations with the Republican congressional leadership.

4.   Sperling said the United States wanted a strong statement from APEC in support of a new global trade negotiation that will begin in November in Seattle.

5.   Sperling said bankers risk scaring off a potential client when they raise questions about the source of their money.

6.   Sperling said Clinton would not back off his opposition to the prohibition.

7.   Sperling said many employers were using the plans as a way to shift a greater percentage of health care costs to employees with the highest medical expenses.

8.   Sperling said that the administration favored weighting the matching system so that it provided greater benefit to lower-income workers.

9.   Sperling said the president wanted to be sure that any move to increase Medicare premiums would not endanger bipartisan support for the budget-balancing bill.

10.   Sperling said some families are forced to mortgage their homes or physically separate themselves from a mentally ill family member so they can pay for care with Medicaid.