1.   Address any questions to the committee chair.

2.   Although lawmakers will return today without their families, little of note will happen for several weeks, until rules are adopted and committee chairs are named.

3.   And the new Republican committee chairs are wasting no time setting agendas.

4.   Another coup plotter, Naomi Matusow of Westchester, kept her committee chair, but did not receive a lu-lu despite her seniority.

5.   At last report, Dole is among senators committed to Packwood as finance committee chair.

6.   -- Limit terms of committee chairs.

7.   -- Limit committee chairs to three terms.

8.   Accordingly, Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, platform committee chair, has engaged in a carefully choreographed minuet with both sides.

9.   Bush advisors also insisted that Cheney had been fully vetted himself, despite his role as an independent selection committee chair.

10.   Bustamante said he expected to name committee chairs within the next two weeks.