21.   He did not offer a stimulus plan for the moribund housing industry.

22.   He has insisted that tax rebates for low-income workers be part of any stimulus plan, over the opposition of Republicans.

23.   He said Bush was leaning toward a stimulus plan, though no decision had been made.

24.   House Republicans did not include such a package for New York in the national economic stimulus plan approved by that chamber.

25.   If the government had to issue bonds to pay for a stimulus plan, that could weigh on the prices of already existing debt.

26.   If necessary, he said, the government could address consumer, investor and business confidence through some type of broadly targeted fiscal stimulus plan.

27.   If the stimulus plan collapses, the concept of a payroll tax holiday during which Social Security taxes would be temporarily suspended might well pass later on its own.

28.   In addition to the economic stimulus plan, Congress left several other Bush initiatives incomplete.

29.   In Congress, the proposal by some Republicans to build a stimulus plan around a cut in the capital gains tax seemed to be losing steam.

30.   In Japan, expectations for a new government stimulus plan are helping stocks to the detriment of bonds, traders said.