61.   Puerto Ricans cannot vote in federal elections and do not pay federal taxes or receive federal benefits comparable to those in the states unless they move to the mainland.

62.   Republican sponsors said the measure was aimed at preventing homosexuals from obtaining federal spousal benefits and in preserving the tradition of heterosexual marriage.

63.   Revision of the data means somewhat higher payments for recipients of Social Security and other federal benefits.

64.   Since a jobless person must be looking for work to qualify, those filing for federal benefits probably swelled the ranks of jobless persons classified as looking for work.

65.   Some say it remains to be seen how many federal benefits will become off-limits to new immigrants.

66.   States are creating their own programs to help people who become ineligible for federal benefits under the federal law.

67.   Supporters of the ban, most of them Republicans, argued that federal benefits drew immigrants to the United States and then discouraged them from working.

68.   Supporters of the same-sex marriage legislation said it was needed to deny federal spousal benefits to gay couples.

69.   Such recognition is considered crucial because it brings lucrative federal benefits, such as housing and health care assistance and the right to operate a casino.

70.   That would modestly slow increases in federal benefits and pensions that are tied to the index, saving hundreds of billions of dollars in the next decade.