1.   Gay rights groups and their congressional allies urged President Clinton to required any year-end budget deal to include the hate crimes provision.

2.   House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo., said he was outraged that the Republican leaders dropped the hate crimes provision.

3.   Just this week he vetoed a spending measure that had been stripped of stronger hate crime provisions.

4.   She gave Republicans a tongue-lashing for killing the Latino fairness measure and hate crimes provisions.

5.   Clinton acted as the House prepared for a nonbinding vote on whether hate crimes provisions should be part of a defense bill.

6.   Clinton vetoed a spending bill for the Commerce, Justice and State departments because it lacked a hate crimes provision.

7.   Last month, Clinton vetoed a spending bill for the Commerce, Justice and State departments because the hate crimes provision was not in it.

8.   The House last month voted to tell their conferees to accept the Senate hate crime provision, but it was a nonbinding vote and cannot be enforced.