1.   Democratic National Committee chairman Ronald H. Brown immediately commented that his decision would make it easier to get a consensus nominee early in the process.

2.   Among the critics were Greenwald and state Sen. Wayne R. Bryant of Camden, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

3.   And at a reception at the White House in December, Clinton asked New Hampshire Democratic chairman Joseph Keefe, an ally, to stay on for another term.

4.   And Hyde, seated beneath a portrait of former Representative Peter Rodino, the Democratic chairman of the Nixon impeachment hearings, grew increasinly exasperated.

5.   And Democratic chairmen will have the authority to schedule hearings on whatever topics they choose.

6.   And little wonder, too, that now the Democratic state chairman, Terrie Brady, has resigned.

7.   Both Jefferson and Jeffers, the Democratic chairman, said they believed that some of the signers might withdraw from the pact now that Jefferson had announced his candidacy.

8.   A close vote, officials said, might have been viewed suspiciously by Sen. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, the new Democratic chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.

9.   Adding to the sense of free-for-all politics is the fact that the Democratic chairman of Queens, Rep. Thomas Manton, has declined to state a preference.

10.   Brendan T. Byrne Jr., the New Jersey Democratic chairman, said it was not surprising that Mrs. Whitman was taking advantage of her new celebrity.