51.   Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said Bush welcomed bipartisan input and supported a proposal by a bipartisan group of senators to have a commission study changes to the retirement system.

52.   But a bipartisan group of lawmakers would take the further, useful step of allowing U.S. companies to sell food and medicine to Cuba.

53.   Bush and the bipartisan group agree that patients should be guaranteed basic services, such as emergency room care and access to specialists.

54.   But even as that bipartisan group was trying to calm the political waters, larger storms were brewing over appropriations.

55.   But Mitchell emphasized that he wanted to deal with the bipartisan group.

56.   But the bipartisan group remains the only one that refuses to say what is in its bill.

57.   But the president said that he had heard that a bipartisan group of eight senators may be formed to try and salvage the anti-tobacco initiative.

58.   But the legislation has drawn opposition from a bipartisan group of state attorneys general and a national association of state officials who manage waste disposal and cleanups.

59.   But they will be limited by a bipartisan group of moderates that holds the balance of power in the Senate.

60.   Clinton will assemble a bipartisan group of senior lawmakers in early October to draw up a timetable for drafting comprehensive tobacco legislation.