21.   A new federal commission would be created to discuss issues facing the financing of teaching hospitals.

22.   Admitting the candidates on his slate were out-campaigned by unions, Riordan said he hoped to be able to work with the new commission.

23.   AFL-CIO president John J. Sweeney also welcomed the new commission.

24.   After the fund suspended its disbursements in October, however, the government formed a new commission to oversee tax collection.

25.   Breaux said Congress should just go ahead and revise the formula without a new commission.

26.   But it says a new commission will look into the scandal.

27.   Cellucci, who has the final say over SJC appointments, justified the new commission.

28.   Comptroller John Sharp, who met with the business executives Monday, will recommend how the new commission should be structured and where its priorities should be placed.

29.   Deputy Mayor Ben Austin said Riordan would not comment until he names a new commission president, a move that will come soon.

30.   Even so, more than a dozen lawyers filed a lawsuit attacking the constitutionality of the new commission.