11.   By blocking reform of a broken system, the Bush administration is favoring the interests of a tiny corporate oligarchy over those of everyone else.

12.   Gore responded that the Clinton administration favors enforcement of current gun laws.

13.   Gorton, for his part, says that many of the administrative improvements that the Clinton administration favors are compatible with the legislation he has drafted.

14.   Instead, the administration favors a weaker plan that urges voluntary reduction by American industry with little incentive for participation.

15.   Instead of fixed grants to each state, the administration favors a capped amount that could be spent on each eligible person.

16.   Or does the Bush administration instead favor a more informal arrangement in which each side would make reductions that would not be legally binding?

17.   Republicans are prepared to forge ahead with a replacement bill that shifts tens of millions of dollars to education and public housing programs that the administration favors.

18.   Rubin repeatedly told lawmakers that the Clinton administration favored balancing the budget, and he said the economic benefits required lawmakers to seek to end deficit spending.

19.   Reed said the administration would likely favor the latter.

20.   Rubin repeated that the administration favors a permanent debt-ceiling measure over a temporary measure, the officials said.