91.   Last week, the House of Representatives did not act on an industry aid package half that size.

92.   Last spring, Richardson proposed a large American aid package for Congo provided Kabila respected democracy and human rights.

93.   Legislative efforts to deliver an aid package have been most aggressive in the House.

94.   Lawmakers want to be sure the aid package compensates the industry for losses directly stemming from the attacks, but not from pre-existing problems, Blunt said.

95.   Mineta said administration officials immediately would begin meeting with Congress in hopes of approving an aid package for the economically important industry as early as next week.

96.   Most of the US-IMF aid package was in the form of a line of credit upon which Brazil could draw whenever necessary to defend its currency.

97.   Mexican markets continued to be plagued by uncertainty over a United States aid package.

98.   North Carolina lawmakers, however, said they remain optimistic the emergency aid package will pass.

99.   Now MacKay is turning his attention on Congress as he lobbies for passage of the Caribbean Basin Initiative expansion and for an aid package to Colombia.

100.   Officials are silent, too, about how alternative development funds, included in the aid package, might ever reach farmers trapped in the middle of a battlefield.