71.   Both Houses debate each bill, amending, approving and deleting articles before passing or rejecting draft laws.

72.   Brokers said investors were discouraged by an unexplained government delay in sending draft laws and amendments related to taxes and investment to parliament.

73.   Britain insists the elected legislature should scrutinize the draft law, while China wants the job to be done by the provisional legislature.

74.   But Duma speaker Ivan Rybkin told legislators he had shown the draft law to Yeltsin, hospitalized with heart ailment, during their meeting this week.

75.   But Justice Minister Valeriu Stoica said that the Senate should submit a new draft law to the Chamber of Deputies.

76.   But Hrawi argued the Cabinet had no right to withdraw the draft law without consent of two-thirds of its members.

77.   But the draft law for savings funds has strongly affected the AFM and a state of chaos and anxiety prevailed.

78.   But the draft law, which sets five years for privatization to be completed, immediately drew fierce criticism from opposition and independent experts.

79.   But the draft law has come under criticism from domestic legal and human rights circles which claim the changes will actually hamper such freedom even more.

80.   But on Thursday night the government withdrew a draft law on the elections being reviewed by parliament.