1.   An initial stopgap bill expires Monday.

2.   As part of the Republican exercise to concentrate attention on the balanced budget issue, both Houses also passed a brief stopgap spending bill for the entire government.

3.   As part of the Republican exercise to concentrate attention on the balanced budget issue, the House also passed a brief stopgap spending bill for all of government.

4.   A little insight to what seems to motivate our members of Congress is provided by the stopgap spending bill that they just passed.

5.   A stopgap bill passed by the Senate contains the sort of conditions certain to draw a presidential veto.

6.   A senior administration official said the White House would not object to another stopgap funding bill, but reiterated it wants the catchall spending bill wrapped up this week.

7.   But lawmakers were drafting a temporary spending measure that would keep the federal agencies operating past midnight Friday, when a stopgap funding bill expires.

8.   But Republican opponents in the House, led by a group of conservative Californians, thwarted that effort by threatening to delay passage of the stopgap spending bill.

9.   Clinton cited the increased premiums as one reason he would probably veto the stopgap spending bill.

10.   Clinton first vetoed their stopgap spending bill that froze Medicare premiums at current levels, contending that the measure was harmful to senior citizens.