1.   The tribunal had heard allegations of a hate campaign against the councillor after she backed a council job cuts package which affected GMB members.

2.   Already, workers in Europe, Canada and South America are protesting efforts to undermine collective bargaining or cut benefits packages, he said.

3.   And any estate tax cut will have to be part of a larger tax cut package worked out by Republicans and the White House.

4.   And he tried to sell an essentially dishonest tax cut package he could not financially justify that undercut his past priority of balancing the budget.

5.   Any new spending would have to be taken from the size of his tax cut package.

6.   Beyond his tax cut package, he had no new proposals to excite voters or compete with the dozens of mini-programs tossed out daily by Clinton.

7.   But proposals for a massive fiscal spending and tax cut stimulus package bogged down.

8.   He also is the lone Democratic co-sponsor of the Bush tax cut package.

9.   Hastert spearheaded a strategy this year that chopped up a larger Republican tax cut package, which Clinton vetoed last year, into smaller chunks.

10.   If Bush is elected, they believe they can get a larger tax cut package signed by the president.