The Governor was only able to win minor changes.

The next year, he held up the budget for three months until he won changes to workers' compensation insurance.

They had hoped to either win significant changes in the bill or block its passage altogether.

He held the budget for months in 1996 to win changes to workers' compensation laws.

And efforts to win systemic changes through court orders have often been frustrated by failures of enforcement.

If the unions win changes that would make it easier to unionize wireless workers, the impact on the company could be felt throughout the nation.

He won changes that lowered employers' premiums more than 30 percent.

Moving too quickly, this official said, could have doomed the effort to win changes.

Still, the question of how far the rebels will press their advantage to try to win broad political and economic changes swirls around Marcos himself.

Hassebrook has served 34 years with the Center, winning changes in federal tax, farm, conservation and rural development policy.