21.   But legislation needed to implement the law, approved last week by a senate committee, has stirred up controversy throughout the country over the abortion issue.

22.   Commission chairwoman, Eileen Petersen, testified before the senate finance committee on Thursday and rejected suggestions the commissioners take a pay cut until the first casino opens.

23.   Facing criminal prosecution, Lopes refused to sign an oath pledging to tell the truth to the senate committee.

24.   Former Education Commissioner James E. Cheek told a senate committee in July that the school system failed to get building permits for millions of dollars worth of hurricane repairs.

25.   He declined to testify before the senate committee in hearings this year.

26.   Senate committee approves bill to tighten accounting oversight,

27.   Senate committees for health and family voted Tuesday in favor of continuing the ban, and the full Senate is set to vote Thursday or Friday.

28.   Senate committees will be equally divided, with Republican chairmen.

29.   He will meet with house of representatives speaker Newt Gingrich, the senate foreign relations committee and the house international relations committee.

30.   In Seoul, Wednesday US senate armed service committee chairman Sam Nunn pledged continued US military cooperation with South Korea in a meeting with President Kim Young-Sam.