71.   But GM did not strike out completely during the recently completed legislative session.

72.   But he did have some answers about his plans for the legislative session.

73.   But his first priority is to prepare for the upcoming legislative session.

74.   But his three legislative sessions have produced laws to improve reading and overhaul academic standards.

75.   But if past legislative sessions are a guide, only about a fifth of the bills filed this session will move through the Legislature and become law.

76.   But in retrospect, their role in defeating White may have relegated teachers to political obscurity in subsequent gubernatorial elections and legislative sessions, many say.

77.   But he cautioned that it was likely that no deal would be struck until the final days of the legislative session, this summer.

78.   But it will be almost impossible, he said, to pass the bill during the current legislative session, in time for the Simpson trial.

79.   But it could shut quickly once a new legislative session begins in January and partisan wrangling over the budget and other state problems resumes.

80.   But she said interim legislative committees are looking at the issue for the legislative session that begins in January.