81.   By contrast, Reiner and Gore advisers said, Bush has resisted efforts to expand government health care programs to hundreds of thousands of poor children in Texas.

82.   By some estimates, the current allocation would cover only one in seven poor children who are eligible to receive day care.

83.   Campbell, who has met Mandela five times, will help him raise money for poor children.

84.   Clinton, who has been criticized by some for ending the federal welfare program for poor children that Roosevelt began, made no direct allusion to his own record.

85.   Communities trying to stretch their federal dollars found they had other responsibilities, and poor children fell among the politically powerless.

86.   Complaints abound, too, that the parents and teachers of poor children are rarely consulted.

87.   Clinton has so far avoided a confrontation with Republicans, saying only that the federal government should set national standards to protect poor children.

88.   Critics contend the overall Republican welfare package would end popular federal programs such as free breakfasts for poor children.

89.   Critics say the child care debate has centered on single issues, such as Head Start, the preschool program to educate poor children.

90.   Congress approved the cigarette tax increase this summer to expand health care for poor children.