11.   He signed a Kosovo emergency funding bill last May that included a rider that cleared the way for a controversial gold mine in Okanogan County.

12.   His provision is included in a funding bill that cleared the Appropriations Committee at midweek en route to a full Senate vote.

13.   Ken Wolfe, a spokesman for Smith, said the congressman has not decided whether to add an anti-abortion provision to any new IMF funding bill.

14.   Kennedy successfully delayed a Federal Aviation Administration funding bill last year to protest union rules governing Federal Express Corp. employees.

15.   Last year, they blackmailed President Clinton into including an amendment barring aid to international family planning organizations in a United Nations funding bill.

16.   Missing the deadline is usually no problem because lawmakers can pass a stopgap funding bill that provides a short-term infusion of cash.

17.   Miller is confident the increase will remain in any funding bill that makes its way into law.

18.   President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders have reached an agreement on an temporary funding bill to keep the government operating, a senior White House official say.

19.   Republicans set up the showdown with Clinton by attaching Medicare changes to a short-term funding bill to keep the government open.

20.   Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, later inserted it into a Defense Department funding bill.