51.  Key legislators have agreed to urge the Legislature to spend that money on health and human services.

52.  Klagholz spoke from a black-walled studio at Raritan Valley Community College with Ms. Poritz and William Waldman, commissioner of human services.

53.  King County is its major tenant, occupying at least half the building with its arts commission, parks, human services and environmental-health offices.

54.  Mack, a junior, is concentrating in human services and criminal justice.

55.  Many have even shifted some money that once would have gone to the arts to human services.

56.  Mike Jones, a spokesman for the human services department, said the rate increases were largely due to increases in costs for nursing homes.

57.  Moncrief has asked state human service officials to determine whether his legislation would comply with federal Medicaid law.

58.  More than half of the states already have received the necessary federal waiver, said William Waldman, the state commissioner of human services.

59.  Members also heard from officials about general needs in health and human services, education and criminal justice.

60.  On the other side of Atlanta from Johnson is Dr. Louis Sullivan, president of the Morehouse School of Medicine and former health and human services secretary.