61.   The PRD insists the federal government should assume the debt since the Mexico City government was a federal department.

62.   The plan to eliminate the Commerce Department would preserve some of its parts, shifting offices to other federal departments.

63.   Today, dozens of federal departments and agencies, as well as state and local governments, have responsibilities affecting homeland security.

64.   Federal departments have in the past taken a month or longer to review applications for the required aid export licenses, Linton said.

65.   Federal departments have in the past taken a month or longer to review applications for aid export licenses to North Korea, Linton said.

66.   This partial closing is less significant than the November shutdown because Congress has since passed -- and the president has signed -- several spending bills funding various federal departments.

67.   Vice President Al Gore unleashed Democratic hostilities Friday, following committee approval of budget plans to eliminate several federal departments and cut spending on social programs in half.

68.   President Bill Clinton vetoed two bills Monday that would have funded several federal departments and lessened the impact of an ongoing partial government shutdown.

69.   President Bill Clinton vetoed three bills Monday that would have funded several federal departments and lessened the impact of an ongoing partial government shutdown.

70.   The intervention in Chechnya had shown inadequacies, stereotyped planning and a lack of coordination between federal departments.