1.   Democrats lashed Republican plans, calling them extreme.

2.   Although the legislators will not vote until Thursday, the Republican plan is destined to be approved.

3.   And he borrowed a quote from the Rev. Theodore Ted Hesburgh, former president of Notre Dame University, to justify Republican plans to crack down on illegal immigration.

4.   And he slammed Weld for cutting higher education and embracing Republican plans to make heavy cuts in Medicare.

5.   And many parts of the Republican plan exclude people who buy insurance on their own.

6.   And they said that by apportioning any tobacco money exclusively to Medicare the Republican plan would end any chance of assembling broad bipartisan support for a tobacco bill.

7.   And while the Republican plan would require fixed sentences for first-time violent offenders, the Assembly version would let judges decide whether such sentences were necessary.

8.   Any Republican plan would have to make drastic cuts in entitlement spending in programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to pay for the tax cuts.

9.   Another Republican spending plan also drew scorn from the president.

10.   Armey said he expects fewer than a half dozen Democrats to vote for the Republican plan.