1.   It would eliminate the fledgling National Biological Service, for example, and scrap the funding needed to add plants and animals to the endangered species list.

2.   The Environmental Protection Agency provides half the funding needed for a helicopter used to monitor the quality of ocean water off the Jersey shore.

3.   This funding needs to be met now.

4.   But there is ample disagreement over how to draw the six into the club and the funding needed to make that happen.

5.   Increased funding needed to come from Congress and through streamlining existing naval operations, he said.

6.   Networks gaining funding needed time to plan for and use new funds to provide the best quality and most cost-efficient services.