51.   The final tax measure will deliver a child tax credit to families, a priority for both political parties.

52.   The dairy dispute is not likely to derail the tax measure, but it could make the passage more difficult.

53.   The House passed a similar tax measure, but with deeper reductions, last April.

54.   The full Senate could act next week on the tax measure, which will be merged with sweeping legislation to balance the budget.

55.   The likelihood of an entirely different Congress and a new president sticking to a tax measure crafted a decade earlier is remote.

56.   The prospects of that bill becoming law are uncertain, but some senators said the tax measure will make it easier to move the tobacco bill through the Senate.

57.   The report urged Congress to enact or to preserve several tax measures that encourage individual and corporate donations to nonprofit groups.

58.   The retreat suggested to some analysts that the government would back down on needed tax measures under pressure from other interest groups.

59.   The power struggle to win favors and avoid punitive tax measures would continue and the game of using legislative initiatives to promote campaign contributions would escalate.

60.   The tax measure has the support of all the Republicans on the committee and will probably go to the full Senate for a vote later this month.