31.   Critics charge those ads were directly tied to the Clinton campaign and therefore violated the federal spending limit for presidential campaigns that accept public funding.

32.   Doctors who want to dip into the huge pool of Medicare beneficiaries must agree to be content with the federal limits on fees.

33.   Democrats killed proposals for general regulatory relief and for putting federal limits on suits in state courts against makers of faulty products.

34.   Each of the last two years, though, only one community in Missouri has averaged more than the federal limit.

35.   Federal limits on the deductibility of expense-account lunches hurt, and so did changing drinking habits, especially at lunch.

36.   Forbes, who is not requesting federal matching funds and therefore faces no federal spending limits, is financing his campaign mainly from his personal fortune.

37.   Forbes is not encumbered by federal spending limits because he is using his own money in the primaries.

38.   He also lobbies to expand the federal limit on truck size and to block increases in the taxes that truckers pay for gas, tires and new vehicles.

39.   He has little to show for his investment and may be short of cash due to federal spending limits.

40.   He drastically reduced campaign expenditures in recent months to avoid violating federal spending limits during the primary season.