31.   President Clinton and Senate Republican leader Bob Dole will offer competing proposals Monday to overcome a political impasse that has stalled welfare legislation for two months.

32.   Republicans and Democrats offered competing proposals to spend even more.

33.   Republicans introduced competing proposals.

34.   Roughly speaking, the deal reached on Tuesday on the New York aid package represented the middle ground between competing proposals approved by the House and the Senate.

35.   Several competing proposals in Congress also include contracting with private benefit managers to get group price discounts, though the plans differ in details.

36.   Sens. John Chafee, R-R.I., and Bob Graham, D-Fla., also dropped a competing proposal to support McCain.

37.   State legislators are backing competing proposals to alleviate the crunch.

38.   That could start to change today, however, when the City Council takes up competing proposals by Councilwoman Laura Chick and Councilman Hal Bernson to legalize home businesses.

39.   That is how much the three partnerships each say they are offering to win NFL approval for their competing proposals.

40.   The bitter dispute over who can perform conversions to Judaism has deepened, with two competing proposals now before the chief rabbis of Israel.