101.  The new Republican chairmen of the Senate Budget and Governmental Affairs committees said they hoped the bill would pass their panels as early as next week.

102.  The president of the coalition, Don Hodel, told the Republican chairmen on Saturday that he was concerned that the party was being too accommodating.

103.  The Republican chairman of the House Banking Committee opened two weeks of public hearings into the so-called Whitewater affair that surrounds President Bill Clinton and his wife.

104.  The Republican national chairman, Marc Racicot, the former governor of Montana, was a lobbyist for the company until last week.

105.  The Republican chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Ted Stevens of Alaska, also questioned the idea.

106.  The retiring Republican chairman of the House Committee on Science wants U.S. businesses to compete in the commercial launch industry.

107.  The Senate Ethics Committee should understand that, and its Republican chairman should stop sheltering Packwood from the public examination that he deserves and the nation should demand.

108.  The Republican chairman of the Education Committee in the state House, Representative Nils Larson, said he would not intervene.

109.  The Republican chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee has blown it.

110.  The state Republican chairman, state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos Jr., welcomed Treffinger into the race as an intelligent and competent candidate.