31.   Many educators point out a difficulty in consigning remedial work to community colleges, as many state legislatures are eager to do.

32.   Ms. Sheff said that the legislature was more concerned about luring the New England Patriots to Hartford than in improving the schools there.

33.   More important, the legislature is a separate branch of the Constitution, conceived as a check and balance on the executive.

34.   On an institutional level, few question that the state legislatures are in for major changes, not all of them for the best.

35.   So far, though, most state legislatures have been hesitant to take up the issue because it could stir passions on both sides of the thorny abortion debate.

36.   State legislatures are the grass roots.

37.   State legislatures are far ahead in the game.

38.   State legislatures are way ahead of Congress in cleaning up their acts.

39.   State legislatures were not willing to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars pursuing these untested claims.

40.   Texas elected officials are prohibited by state law from collecting campaign contributions when the legislature is in session.