31.   James said the revenue windfall also allowed him to propose a cut in municipal water rates.

32.   James Silva, an AQMD board member and Orange County supervisor, proposed the cuts.

33.   Last year, Rowland proposed cuts in the education budget, while this year, he added money for schools and state colleges.

34.   Neither side is proposing cuts, except in the peculiar Washington arithmetic where smaller-than-expected increases are called cuts.

35.   Pataki is already planning to propose deep cuts in welfare and health care programs, and additional tax cuts would require further reductions in those programs, they said.

36.   Pataki proposed deep cuts in Medicaid, the health care program for the poor, and in tuition assistance for low-income college students.

37.   Price cuts were proposed Monday by the industry regulator.

38.   Republicans proposed modest cuts in Medicare and were soundly thrashed by Clinton for abandoning the elderly.

39.   Republicans had never proposed such cuts, but they refused to exempt Social Security entirely.

40.   Senior administration officials said the president has not yet decided what cuts to propose.