11.   The handgun provision was stripped in the House, however.

12.   The House overwhelmingly approved the bill on Saturday after stripping away provisions that the administration opposed on environmental grounds.

13.   The Senate also voted to strip a provision denying cash benefits to teen-agers who have babies out of wedlock.

14.   The Republicans have stripped the provision from the bill, but Clinton has threatened to veto it.

15.   Tobacco foes on Capitol Hill failed in a last ditch effort to strip the provision, slipped into the bill without their knowledge, out of the tax package.

16.   Under the threat of a filibuster from Democrats, the provision was stripped from the Senate version of the bill.

17.   Democrats said House Republicans were retaliating against Clinton by stripping the provision.

18.   He followed through, and Congress promptly stripped the provision out and sent the legislation back to the White House for his promised signature.

19.   If he were president, McCain said, Congress would have known to strip special interest provisions from the measure before sending it to his desk.

20.   It stripped a provision included in earlier legislation that enabled the president to block such payments.