61.   Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., has been accused by GOP members of leaking the tape of the Republican strategy session to The New York Times.

62.   Republicans said White House aides were meeting with lawmakers Tuesday and huddled in a strategy session with Republican leaders.

63.   Regular under-the-tree inventories continue, as do strategy sessions about Christmas morning.

64.   Selig had members of his management negotiating committee assemble in Rosemont, Ill. Thursday, for what was later called merely a strategy session.

65.   Several Republican lawmakers said strategy sessions might continue through the weekend.

66.   Sen. Spencer Abraham of Michigan, an early arrival at the midday crisis strategy session, circled wolfishly.

67.   So did the other Republicans who flanked him at a news conference held after a strategy session for two dozen GOP House members.

68.   Some Republicans emerged from a strategy session earlier in the day prepared to offer dozens of additional amendments.

69.   Sneaking out into the hall for an impromptu strategy session, they decided that the speech must go on.

70.   Still, at a strategy session Wednesday, they began discussing several likely and not-so-likely options for finding further evidence.