31.   Clinton struggled to gain the offensive in a capital with a newly energized, muscular Republican congressional leadership.

32.   Clinton will be on Capitol Hill Tuesday to meet with Lott, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other members of the congressional leadership, Republicans and Democrats.

33.   Clinton will be on the Hill next Tuesday to meet with Lott, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other members of the congressional leadership to discuss federal budget issues.

34.   Clinton, who assessed the new political landscape at a White House news conference, promised to seek common ground with the new congressional leadership.

35.   Counterterrorism legislation was proposed by both the Republian congressional leadership and Clinton shortly after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City last April.

36.   Democrats and moderate Republicans have introduced legislation to repeal the amendment, but it has little chance of passage under current congressional leadership.

37.   Efforts last year by the Republican congressional leadership to weaken air and water laws were foiled either by opposition within their own party or by presidential vetoes.

38.   Even critics doubt that Congress will stop him, and there were indications before the speech that opposition by the Republican congressional leadership was softening.

39.   For now, however, the Republican congressional leadership appears to prefer radical tax and spending cuts to reasoned accommodation on the budget.

40.   For its part, the congressional leadership was unable to provide much leadership, either to Washington or to the nation as a whole.