Last year, New York received about $2.5 million from the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal-state partnership created in 1965 to aid the region's lagging economy.

"I urge that the final economic stimulus package build upon the existing federal-state partnership by including a temporary increase" in federal Medicaid funding.

The story reports that the federal-state partnership that pays for AIDS drugs for the indigent is broke in 26 states.

He said the federal-state partnership would speed that process.

"The Medicaid program must be a federal-state partnership, not an exercise in financial gamesmanship," said Dennis G. Smith, the top federal official for Medicaid.

It would also violate the spirit of the federal-state partnership underlying the project and threaten the revenue stream on which it depends.

The plan proposed a federal-state partnership serving magnet-related research, science and technology education, and partnering industry.

The title refers to people who qualify for prescription coverage under both Medicare, the federal program for the elderly, and Medicaid, the federal-state partnership for the poor.

You may be able to get coverage for your children through the State Children's Health Insurance Program, a federal-state partnership.

"We need a broader federal-state partnership," Mr. Gilbert said.