61.   Although different government departments, from Commerce to Defense, help facilitate these deals, they are protected as proprietary business information.

62.   An overall budget also would permit the scientific and technical panels that advise the various government departments to see the budget whole.

63.   As soon as he announced the creation of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiative, branches were simultaneously established in five separate government departments.

64.   At least some government departments may have to operate at reduced levels with stopgap funding for a second year.

65.   Beastall made a string of recommendations to tighten up consultation between regulators and government departments in similar circumstances.

66.   A budget impasse could also result in the shutdown of three key government departments.

67.   All government departments now must be headed by civil servants.

68.   Bush signaled his position on the contractor blacklist issue when the General Services Administration and a handful of government departments suspended the regulation in February for six months.

69.   But Democrats charged Tuesday that the across-the-board approach is one step in a GOP plan to eliminate entire government departments, such as education and energy.

70.   But government departments do not stonewall Congress without approval, whenever the idea strikes them.