41.   It is the only direct federal payment to the district, excluding specialized programs.

42.   It would also raise federal payments to Texas by half, and lower those to New York by a third.

43.   It will be up to Congress to determine the payment structure after that, though most analysts expect federal payments to continue to decline.

44.   Midwestern ranchers will have to wait at least two weeks longer to receive federal payments for cattle drowned or frozen in the calamities.

45.   Moreover, city officials wonder why federal payments could be given to Maryland to take over the District, but not to Washington.

46.   Moreover, though the evidence is mixed, some economists argue that the billions of dollars in federal payments are helping to drive out family farmers and ranchers.

47.   Much of the savings will come from reducing federal Medicaid payments to hospitals that treat large numbers of poor people, so-called disproportionate share money.

48.   Most of his proposed savings would come out of reductions in federal payments to doctors and hospitals.

49.   New York state health officials today lost a bid to force nursing homes to refund to the state millions of dollars a year in federal Medicare payments.