31.   The department already had to withhold some payments earlier this year when a funding bill got held up in the Legislature.

32.   The emergency funding bill is expected to reach the House floor late next week.

33.   The Dodgers have a hard deadline this month of making a decision because of the way the funding bill was written in Florida.

34.   The funding is not a hot issue in the Senate yet, sources said, because the appropriations committee has not even written the funding bill.

35.   The House could take up the stopgap funding bill tomorrow, with the Senate to follow.

36.   The House Transportation Committee unanimously approved a six-month highway funding bill that delays a showdown over big increases in transportation spending until next year.

37.   The House and the Senate are scheduled to vote on the compromise version of the new transportation funding bill.

38.   The House of Representatives has already passed its defense authorization bill and plans to begin debating its funding bill tomorrow.

39.   The House version of the transportation funding bill does not change the transit formula.

40.   The new stopgap funding bill would require Clinton to agree to balance the budget in seven years using congressional economic forecasts that he has said are too conservative.