41.   The most controversial provisions would redefine what constitutes a wetland.

42.   The other eight appropriations bills have not cleared Congress, mainly because the Republicans cannot agree among themselves on various controversial provisions.

43.   The report released Thursday is the first to relate the controversial provisions to efforts to encourage recycling in America.

44.   The Senate will take up legislation in mid April that seeks to achieve a similar goal but leaves out controversial provisions contained in the House bill.

45.   The two parties, however, remain far apart on one controversial provision.

46.   The votes ended weeks of fighting over the two controversial GOP provisions.

47.   This admittedly controversial provision was knocked out of the Senate bill.

48.   While both measures were supported largely by Republicans, a number of Democrats joined them in defeating efforts to kill the two controversial provisions.

49.   Aides and lawmakers had said earlier that to keep the bill acceptable to Clinton, they would avoid including controversial provisions changing laws.

50.   Conferees did agree to do away with a controversial antiabortion provision that social conservatives had championed and which had been in the original House-passed bill.