41.   Farm state legislators are sure to stand firm in defense.

42.   Female legislators are disproportionately Democratic, while women in executive positions are more evenly divided between the two major parties.

43.   Even the Senate president, Donald DiFranceso, R-Scotch Plains, said many legislators were unsure about the Whitman proposal.

44.   GOP legislators were quick to make their disapproval known.

45.   Here, the skeptical legislators are Democrats.

46.   How can a legislator be effective if he allows the perfect to be the enemy of the good?

47.   If the legislators were to reject the package, they would be hard-pressed to justify a vote in favor of his government.

48.   In any budgetary standoff the legislators will be under economic pressure to cave, whereas the governor will not.

49.   In Arkansas, Renzulli said, one legislator was also a registered lobbyist.

50.   In Connecticut, some legislators are not convinced, including Rep. Lenny T. Winkler, Republican of Groton.