1.   Lieberman noted that under Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican presidential nominee, Texas had among the highest rates of uninsured women and children in the nation.

2.   One in four uninsured women reported having trouble obtaining the health care they needed, compared with one in five uninsured men.

3.   Other programs, such as a nationwide breast cancer early detection program for uninsured women, are aimed at high-risk populations with poor access to health care.

4.   She and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran have been pushing for Medicaid coverage for uninsured women who have breast or cervical cancer.

5.   A long-running dispute involving premarital sex, venereal disease and condoms is holding up legislation that would help uninsured women get treatment for breast and cervical cancer.

6.   Consequently, access to mammograms for uninsured women must be increased, the report said.

7.   The federal government, hoping to help uninsured women detect breast and cervical cancer early, pays for tests that diagnose the diseases.

8.   The House on Thursday approved and sent to President Clinton a bill to help low-income uninsured women get treatment for breast cancer.

9.   Uninsured women who rely on the government for breast or cervical cancer screening could get federally funded treatment under a bill approved Wednesday by the Senate.