61.  Clinton, who assailed the Republican plan on Tuesday, dispatched Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala to Capitol Hill Wednesday to renew the attack.

62.  Clinton will seek to tie Dole, the former Senate majority leader, to congressional Republican plans to reduce Medicare funding increases, student loans and environmental regulations.

63.  Clinton compared Republican plans to spend much of the projected surplus to a foolhardy person spending sweepstakes money before the check arrived.

64.  Clinton has given himself a ready answer for virtually any Republican plan this year.

65.  Congressional aides said the budget office had re-estimated the savings that would result from the Republican plan to balance the budget, which President Clinton vetoed last week.

66.  Congressional Democrats today unveiled their alternative tax proposals, which seek to redirect some of the tax cuts in the Republican plans to lower income workers.

67.  Clinton said the Republican plan would be costly, because it would force HHS to set up a new bureaucracy that would duplicate that of the tax agency.

68.  Clinton vetoed the Republican plan, saying it would have gutted programs for the poor to give a tax cut to the wealthy.

69.  Congressional Democrats unveiled their alternative tax proposals, seeking to redirect and reduce many of the tax cuts in the Republican plan to lower income workers.

70.  Congress gave its final approval Thursday to a Republican plan that would lower the taxes of all Americans who pay income taxes.