Tobacco-state lawmakers have already promised a bitter fight over any effort to regulate the industry.

In 1997, lawmakers enacted major tax cuts and promised new education programs like expanding prekindergarten, all to be phased in over five years.

For instance, lawmakers from both parties had promised to overhaul Medicaid to ease the cost burden on cities and towns.

Mr. Schwenk said lawmakers had promised from the beginning that there would be adequate financing to buy the private property in the core area.

After the speech, lawmakers praised the president's speech and promised to back him.

Democratic lawmakers promised this week to press for more Government assistance for farmers.

Democratic lawmakers, newly in control of Congress, promised hearings on the problems.

Even the details of what lawmakers have promised to do to help the city solve its $5 billion budget shortfall remained sketchy.

After a heavy lobbying effort on Monday by business groups, lawmakers promised to reconsider the petroleum tax increase, but only after they had approved it.

That is a far cry from making virtually no overall change in revenue, as lawmakers and the Reagan Administration promised when they reworked the tax system.