1.   Almost immediately, the Senate began debating welfare reform, a subject Packwood had been expected to play a pivotal role in as chair of the Finance Committee.

2.   And as reform is debated, the push for big gifts continues.

3.   As Congress debates welfare reform in the coming months, the air will be filled with talk of the relationship between poverty and illegitimacy.

4.   Bush and McCain did not discuss when the reform should be debated in Congress, an issue that has become an increasingly difficult one.

5.   But as Congress debated reform, successive proposals pared the benefits.

6.   But as we debate these reforms, we must not ignore the needs of American families.

7.   He debates bank reform with Prime Minister Zhu Rongji of China while trying to drum up business there for Citigroup.

8.   High unemployment and the slow acceleration of economic growth have led Germany to revise its labor laws, and legislators are debating tax reform as well.

9.   Last week, the Polish parliament began debating social security reform, a particularly thorny task for the Socialist-led government.

10.   Kansas, like other states, has debated reforms but seen many of the proposals die in the Legislature.