71.   Republican legislators predict that most recipients will become breadwinners if they have no alternative.

72.   Republican legislators said the calls were scare tactics that frightened many elderly voters and fueled a perception of dirty politics that the public no longer tolerates.

73.   Republican legislators said they believed that such a bill had a good chance of passing in the House, although its chances in the Senate were considered less certain.

74.   Republican state legislators also filed a brief with the Florida court urging it to drop its earlier ruling and impose the original deadlines for the manual counts.

75.   Republican legislators met informally and some suggested a compromise that would allow some grade school children to remain in school and allow states to charge others to attend.

76.   Republican legislators, on the other hand, have said that a weakening economy is the wrong time to raise taxes, and have called for budget cutbacks.

77.   Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, is emerging as the leader of Republican legislators fighting the tax ban.

78.   Several Republican state legislators from Iowa even flew to Austin last week to urge Bush to run.

79.   Several Republican legislators were present at the ceremony.

80.   She also faces difficulty persuading Republican legislators to pour state dollars into the cities.