31.   And you can buy deluxe multimedia versions of the federal programs that boast extra help with tax planning.

32.   And voters seem to like the idea that Congress has not been lurching right or left, neither establishing big new federal programs nor wiping out familiar existing ones.

33.   And the Medicaid program, the federal insurance program for the poor, has quietly eased the rules that people must have full-blown AIDS to get benefits.

34.   And while the budget deficit has been reduced by cuts in some federal spending programs, Social Security payments and other entitlement outlays continue to rise.

35.   Another, placing restrictions on when state and local governments should pay for federal programs, passed and is held up in a House-Senate conference committee.

36.   And while the deficit has been reduced by cuts in some federal spending programs, Social Security payments and other entitlement outlays continue to rise.

37.   Anti-government zealots hate federal programs, public-spirited ones especially, effective public-spirited programs even more and popular, public-spirited, effective programs most of all.

38.   As a federal program it gives enrollees the chance to enter the center that best matches their career plans.

39.   Any federal program that would pick up much of that expense would be very costly, the office warned.