11.   Seigal said the markets have already figured that the amendment will fail, just as it did in the last Congress.

12.   Such amendments have failed in the two previous Congresses.

13.   That amendment failed, however, at the June assembly meeting in Cincinnati.

14.   That amendment failed in the Senate by a single vote.

15.   That the amendment failed says even more.

16.   The amendment failed again and the ban on late-term abortions passed in the House and is expected to pass soon in the Senate.

17.   The amendment failed in the Senate last fall by one vote.

18.   The amendment ultimately failed, but the debate that erupted over it exposed a practice that is all too common.

19.   The amendments failed.

20.   The amendment failed by one vote to get the necessary two-thirds majority in the Senate.