31.   Health insurance and family leave policies often depend on the generosity of research advisers, and postdocs can have a difficult time making ends meet.

32.   He vetoed a bill letting employees use family leave to care for a domestic partner.

33.   In many communities and companies, domestic partnerships have provided committed partners with necessary access to health insurance, bereavement leave, family leave and retirement benefits.

34.   In Pittsburgh, Pa., on Saturday, Dole launched an off-the-cuff attack on the family leave law, which passed with bipartisan support in Congress.

35.   It took seven years from introduction to passage for the family leave bill, the Brady gun control law, and bank reform.

36.   Lenhoff said she expected opposition for state-financed family leave income from the same groups that originally objected to the FMLA.

37.   Legislators in several states, including Vermont and Massachusetts, have introduced bills to provide unemployment insurance to workers taking family leave.

38.   Nearly two dozen states appear to be considering whether they would essentially provide paid family leave.

39.   Not stopping there, Clinton listed at some length his own legislative achievements in areas like crime, gun control, family leave and budget-trimming.

40.   Our family leave policy is the weakest in the developed world.