But, he said, "There's not a lot of Clinton program to rally around."

The Clinton program has drawn criticism from disappointed environmental groups.

The Clinton program, by contrast, calls for increasing spending on public works by additional $20 billion a year.

It is certainly possible to argue that the Clinton program would do little to hasten a reduction in the budget deficit.

"The reason was the inability to understand what the Clinton program really means."

The analyses underscored how hard it is to pinpoint all the details of the Clinton program.

A1 Gore made his own pitch for the Clinton program.

That could portend difficult times in Congress for many Clinton programs.

In fact, he voted against a Clinton program to increase financing for such vaccines.

"The translation of the Clinton program into numbers," he noted, "has yet to be done."