11.  Earlier this year, Republican newcomers in Congress had hopes of eliminating several federal departments, including Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy.

12.  Federal departments and industry groups released reports on everything from wage costs to manufacturing capacity.

13.  He has also met with almost every member of Congress, not to mention the secretaries of waste-plagued federal departments.

14.  He did not identify the agencies, but in response to another question from Lieberman reiterated that both were federal departments.

15.  He had no desire to antagonize Mrs. Dole, the wife of the Senate Republican leader and a former head of two federal departments.

16.  How realistic is it to expect federal departments to keep from the White House what they know reporters already have in hand?

17.  It sounded real interesting, and one of the things about it is the work across a lot of federal departments and agencies.

18.  It rejected the idea of a federal department of science, saying deft adjustments within the existing government structure would accomplish more than would a new agency.

19.  It would abolish the federal departments of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Education and Energy.

20.  No longer are they talking fervently about abolishing whole Federal departments.