51.   Business groups are strongly lobbying against a Senate pension reform bill sponsored by Education and Labor Committee Chairman Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.

52.   But a provision to do just that has triggered heavy business opposition to a health insurance reform bill that looked to be on its way to passage in Congress.

53.   Budget austerity and a spreading antipathy toward welfare for businesses and the well-off have combined to bring farm reform bills to the House and Senate floors.

54.   But an expansion into wireless cable is less dependent on passage of the telecommunications reform bill before Congress.

55.   But he was aware that Miller and the Democrats would pull out, killing the education reform bill.

56.   But he stopped short of endorsing the reform bill.

57.   But he hailed the welfare reform bill that will deny many federal benefits for most non-citizens, including legals.

58.   But McCain said it was essential for Congress to pass a campaign-finance reform bill.

59.   But immigration reform bills in the House and Senate would increase the classes of immigrants to be detained.