51.   Mitchell has sponsored a large-scale health-care reform measure that is given no chance of passage this year.

52.   Monday, Gov. Gray Davis signed the only major foster care reform measure that will survive this session.

53.   Municipalities say they are getting battered about on all sides by tax reform measures these days.

54.   Neither the campaign finance reform measure nor a minor bill affecting securities fees have been transmitted to the House.

55.   Now, though, economic reform measures in Asia may change all that.

56.   Now investors are regaining some confidence in the region as reform measures are introduced.

57.   Other tort reform measures have yet to get through the Legislature.

58.   Other freebies that particularly irritate Jacobs come from loopholes in the gift reform measure that allow lobbyist or interest-group funded travel and honoraria.

59.   Polls show voters keenly interested in seeing an HMO reform measure, prompting congressional Republicans and Democrats to push for change.

60.   Republican welfare reform measures have passed Congress twice before only to be vetoed by Clinton.