21.   Congressional critics say the institutions have sometimes doled out money unwisely to try to bring about social change, or lent it to recipients with unclean hands.

22.   Congressional critics blasted the Bush administration on Wednesday for deciding to eventually abandon the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a base for live-fire military training exercises.

23.   Congressional critics have charged that the image-damaging foul-ups underscore a climate of arrogance and suspicion toward outsiders at the bureau.

24.   Congressional critics of Arafat, meanwhile, are likely to try to continue to block direct bilateral-style aid.

25.   Congressional critics and the Justice Department have questioned whether he should register as a foreign agent.

26.   Congressional critics faulted him for rushing to the Florida Everglades scene of a ValuJet Airlines Inc. crash in May and declaring that the airline was safe.

27.   Congressional critics have vilified lawyers who file securities class-action cases as fee-hungry extortionists who do nothing to help investors.

28.   Congressional critics say Lawrence is an extreme example in the abusive tradition of rewarding financial supporters with ambassadorships.

29.   Congressional critics say the administration guaranteed that it would need an extension of the mission by failing to define an exit strategy.

30.   Congressional critics warn that e-rate collections will cause long-distance companies to raise their rates.