1.   And the Senate version includes a sunset provision that gives the president the line-item veto power for only five years.

2.   At least the House bill attaches a five-year sunset provision to consider what exactly these changes in the law accomplish, and at what price.

3.   Leaders are talking of a potential compromise, perhaps a three- or five-year sunset provision.

4.   Lawmakers said they added the sunset provision to retain some oversight of the new police powers, and ensure that civil liberties were being protected.

5.   Many of the new powers would expire after four years, a so-called sunset provision that civil libertarians wanted in order to prevent abuses.

6.   Negotiators had to write into the bill a so-called sunset provision so that the total cost of the cuts would not exceed the congressional budget agreement.

7.   Senate negotiators remained opposed to any sunset provision.

8.   Some legislators are said to be wary of backing the cut without a sunset provision that would allow for future reconsideration.

9.   --Sunset provisions of the tax plan.

10.   The Bush administration and some of its supporters in Congress opposed the sunset provision and tried unsuccessfully to give the president the authority to extend it.