21.   Officials are now screening applicants.

22.   Public housing authorities already must screen applicants for criminal backgrounds and include lease provisions barring criminal activity.

23.   Rosenberg said the system already screened applicants thoroughly to weed out those with criminal backgrounds and other problems.

24.   Seminaries should carefully screen applicants, and should insist on strict adherence to Catholic moral doctrine.

25.   State Department officials say they will carefully screen applicants.

26.   Texas is the first state that would let a private technology company create and run a system to screen applicants.

27.   That requirement effectively guts the Texas plan, which would allow private-sector employees to screen applicants for all public benefits.

28.   The Chronicle reported Thursday that the DPS obtained the information about felons and firearms while screening applicants for concealed handgun licenses.

29.   The Clinton administration rejected the statewide plan almost three weeks ago, saying that federal law requires that government employees screen applicants for food stamps and Medicaid.

30.   The heart of the battle centered on the medical criteria that the government would use to screen applicants.