31.   Financial analysts regard the debt ceiling impasse with dismay.

32.   Gingrich has expressed a willingness to raise the debt ceiling during negotiations in Congress and, later, with the White House.

33.   Gingrich is refusing to raise the debt ceiling until Clinton assents to a seven-year deficit reduction plan.

34.   Gingrich responded a short time later by saying he has no intention of pushing a short-term extension of the debt ceiling until he hears from Clinton.

35.   Gilts and other European bonds next week will hinge on whether the White House can settle the issue of raising the debt ceiling.

36.   Gingrich argued today that running into the debt ceiling might in the long run be preferable to letting the deficit widen.

37.   Gingrich said that House Republicans would insist on two conditions before they agreed to a new debt ceiling.

38.   He said House leaders had not yet decided what conditions to attach to an increase in the debt ceiling.

39.   He will talk with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta today about a strategy for raising the debt ceiling.

40.   House and Senate Republicans are less in tune over the debt ceiling.