101.   Daschle said before the Memorial Day recess that drug-pricing legislation is unlikely to win enactment this year because there is little common ground between the two parties.

102.   Democrats have charged that the savings accounts legislation is a payback to Rooney.

103.   Democrats immediately complained that the legislation was overly broad in defining what type of political activity or advocacy would require disclosure.

104.   Democrats said the legislation was a grab-bag of provisions sought by special interests and pushed by Republicans for years.

105.   Despite some fighting over amendments, the legislation is likely to pass overwhelmingly, as did a House version in November.

106.   Dawit, a lawyer, says the legislation is rife with ironies and contradictions.

107.   Democratic leaders in the Senate contend that the Republican legislation will be doomed unless Gramm eliminates the Community Reinvestment Act provisions from the legislation.

108.   Democrats said that showed how disingenuous the legislation is in terms of generating money for the poor.

109.   Dole is a master of the legislative process, and the setbacks he suffered this week might ultimately prove incidental, as far as legislation is concerned.

110.   Earlier this week, Daschle and other congressional leaders, Democrats as well as Republicans, said the fast-track legislation was in trouble.