31.   Most union benefits are routinely extended to non-union employees to save the city extra administration costs.

32.   Nor will there be money to extend Medicare benefits to cover prescription drugs.

33.   One provision extends unemployment benefits to workers who lost jobs because of imports.

34.   Other municipalities in south Florida, including Broward County and Miami Beach, have already enacted gay rights legislation or laws extending benefits to domestic partners.

35.   President Bush opposed congressional initiatives to stimulate construction, extend unemployment benefits and otherwise soften the blows of rapidly rising joblessness that year.

36.   President Clinton issued an executive order this week barring the use of genetic information as a condition of hiring or extending benefits to federal employees.

37.   President Bush said that extending unemployment benefits was necessary, but not enough.

38.   Sanders supports the policy of his former company, Glaxo, of extending health care benefits to the partners of gay employees.

39.   Schwab has joined a growing number of large and small American businesses that quietly offer unmarried employees the option to extend health benefits to their partners.

40.   Since Vermont legalized same-sex marriages two years ago, extending legal benefits to gay partners, commitment ceremonies have come out of the closet.