Several influential lawmakers voiced disappointment with the size of the new package.

Again, witnesses said, the issue of the direct investment rule came up, and the lawmakers voiced concern about the pace of the Lincoln investigation.

Several who attended the meeting said some lawmakers voiced concerns over the political difficulty of the issue.

The decision comes after many lawmakers voiced concern that some international trade panels had ruled that Nafta's provisions superseded various state laws and regulations.

Indeed, some lawmakers - both Republicans and Democrats - are already voicing concerns about the process for replacing the officials.

Some lawmakers voiced alarm today that if Mr. Abrams's view was official policy, the peace initiative would be torpedoed before it started.

While some members of both parties have expressed support for such an effort, other lawmakers have privately voiced some distress at the proposal.

Reformist lawmakers voiced strong criticism of hard-line opponents and vowed not to give in to measures that were meant to force them to resign.

Many lawmakers voiced skepticism that the state would be able to afford them.

Weary from the prolonged session of last year, which, like a bad vaudeville act, simply refused to end, few lawmakers have voiced much enthusiasm for 1989.