21.   Democrats strongly support Medicare drug benefits, but want a larger role for the government and a smaller role for the insurance industry.

22.   Democrats supported making all screeners federal employees.

23.   Democrats supported the Medicare fee schedules, and some wanted to use them as a basis for regulating the prices paid by private insurers and other payers.

24.   Democrats will likely support the bill.

25.   Democrats have long supported incorporating a statistical method known as sampling to raw census numbers.

26.   Democrats support the effort to include trade and environmental standards but Republicans are opposed.

27.   Democrats also supported the bill, but many pointed out that debt is automatically paid down if nothing is done with surplus tax revenue.

28.   Democrats support broad hate crimes legislation, while the Republican leadership in Congress opposes it, he said.

29.   Democrats support many of the ideas, but criticized the governor for not including funding for open space purchases, housing programs and transportation improvements.

30.   Democrats support many parts of the tax bill but refused to vote for it unless budget offsets were found to pay for it.