1.   As Republicans recessed, they emphasized that the contract promise was to bring selected issues to a vote, not necessarily enactment.

2.   -- Refused to bar state utility regulators from making new rules that might affect contract promises to municipal bond purchasers.

3.   In a trial, the court would have to determine whether the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. actually made a legally binding contract promise in an individual case.

4.   The Supreme Court today refused to bar state utility regulators from making new rules that may affect contract promises to municipal bond purchasers.

5.   Yet GOP leaders insist the most important aspect of their revolution is that they are keeping their contract promises.

6.   The contract promises are likely to be scaled back by senators worried about the budget deficit.