111.   Other trial lawyers were hired by states to sue cigarette companies in an effort to recover the state Medicaid money spent on smoking-related illnesses.

112.   Pataki said he hoped the state money would attract federal and private dollars to complete the conversion into a museum to open next spring.

113.   Pataki contends in his suit that the state Constitution gives him the ultimate authority over how billions of dollars in state money should be spent.

114.   Previous governors-elect had generally used state money for that.

115.   Pataki has declared a moratorium on new regulations, but top state officials can make exceptions in cases where new rules will save the state money.

116.   Pataki is also reducing state Medicaid money for hospitals and Washington is preparing huge cuts in federal Medicare and Medicaid money.

117.   Pataki said last month that it was outrageous that state money was spent on the conference.

118.   Programs that qualify for funding from the Texas Workforce Commission receive state money to supplement some of the cost of the classroom section.

119.   Republicans oppose putting up state money for family planning and favor a waiting period.

120.   Recently, the most controversial part of the budget has been so-called riders that put limits on how state money is spent.