71.   The higher education reform measure was approved Wednesday by the House and goes to Gov. Bill Graves, who is expected to sign it into law.

72.   The House passed a reform measure, though it was weaker than many proponents had hoped and ended up dying in conference committee.

73.   The House will take up a controversial Senate-House compromise welfare reform measure.

74.   The IMF loan is to support the sale of government-owned companies and for other economic reform measures.

75.   The legislation passed tonight is the first of a series of financial reform restructuring measures the Assembly will consider.

76.   The latest reform measure would require recipients to work after two years, and limit lifetime benefits to five, although states could exempt a fifth of their recipients.

77.   The Ohio state legislature grappled with reform measures for more than a year before settling on a watered-down law last year that had no meaningful impact.

78.   The president later attended an East Room event marking the second anniversary of his signing into law a welfare reform measure.

79.   The restrictions, proposed by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., would be added to the immigration reform measures now being weighed in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

80.   The session is aimed at Arkansas Sen. Tim Hutchinson, R, who has favored a less sweeping reform measure.