41.   The North Carolina Republican displayed his customary malice in slowing action on a federal funding bill for the care and treatment of people with AIDS.

42.   The Republican tactic of attaching anti-abortion riders to foreign-policy funding bills is the classic example of that strategy.

43.   The Senate and the House are also expected to resolve differences over the two versions of the highway funding bill passed by both chambers last month.

44.   Usually, the president routinely approves congressional funding bills.

45.   When Gregg attempted to insert the extension into the agricultural funding bill, several consumer watchdog groups raised an uproar.

46.   A plan to create a permanent emergency home heating oil reserve for Northeast states suffered a blow Thursday when it was stripped from a funding bill.

47.   Israel and the United States voted against the overall funding bill and Russia abstained.

48.   The appropriations panel hopes to send a supplemental war funding bill to the full Senate by the end of the week.

49.   White House, Congress agree on major funding bill.

50.   Investors have kept a wait-and-see attitude while the White House and the Republican leadership remained deadlocked over the funding bill.