1.   And a House subcommittee is debating a proposal to turn the approval of food additives over to private testing laboratories.

2.   Aside from the expected vote Thursday on the liability limit, the Senate is expected to begin debating a proposal to eliminate federal price supports for tobacco farmers.

3.   Assemblyman John A. Rocco, chairman of the Assembly Education Committee, said he expected the Legislature would debate the proposal into the summer.

4.   After debating the proposal to call witnesses, the Senate retreated into a closed-door session to deliberate before emerging for public votes on the two motions on Wednesday.

5.   Congress has been debating such proposals for years.

6.   Congress is debating various proposals and is expected to set up some type of terrorism reinsurance fund that would help pay commercial and personal property claims.

7.   Congress is debating a proposal that would make it illegal to transmit indecent material on the Internet.

8.   Dole accused the White House of standing idly by while Senate Republicans debated welfare proposals.

9.   Duhalde hopes that the two houses of Congress, which his Peronist party dominates, will debate his proposal on Saturday and approve it no later than Sunday.

10.   Earlier in the day, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., temporarily delayed the bill until senators could debate proposals to alter the ethanol requirement.