1.   But even as the Democratic freshmen were trying to restore those cuts, the House Appropriations Committee was methodically moving toward completion of even deeper cuts.

2.   Clinton agreed to play host at a fund-raiser in her Washington home later this month on behalf of another Democratic freshman senator, Maria Cantwell of Washington state.

3.   Democratic freshmen are also doing well.

4.   Democratic freshman Rep. Ken Bentsen of Houston, nephew of newly retired Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, was upbeat.

5.   On the other side, several vulnerable Democratic freshmen no longer seem like good Republican targets.

6.   Rep. Tom Allen of Maine, the Democratic co-chairman of the task force, said two-thirds of the Democratic freshmen had signed up to support the package.

7.   Richard Nixon had resigned in disgrace, scores of Democratic freshmen had swept into Congress, and Gerald Ford had just lost the White House.

8.   So has Democratic freshman Rep. Maria Cantwell, an expert on high-tech trade and aviation.

9.   The spotlight zeroed in on Torricelli earlier in the week, after Mary Landrieu, the Democratic freshman senator from Louisiana, said she would support the measure.

10.   ------ There is more GOP internal struggling going on in New Jersey, where Democratic freshman Rush Holt is viewed as vulnerable.