11.   Cunningham, the chief sponsor of the amendment, said his purpose was not to limit free speech, but to ban the physical desecration of the flag.

12.   Dole, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, is the chief sponsor of the overhaul package that is the focus of Senate debate.

13.   Dole is the chief sponsor of a bill to lift the embargo on American arms sales to the Bosnian government, which has been vetoed by Clinton.

14.   Even state Sen. Wayne Goode, who is likely to be a chief sponsor of the bill, has mixed feelings.

15.   Feingold was the chief Democratic sponsor of campaign finance reform legislation in the Senate.

16.   Ganske replaces Norwood as chief Republican sponsor in the House.

17.   Gorton and Rockefeller were chief sponsors of the bipartisan product liability bill vetoed last year by President Bill Clinton.

18.   Hatch, a Republican from Utah, is now a chief sponsor of a Senate bill to allow scientific cloning but not reproductive cloning.

19.   He also was the chief sponsor of a ban on gifts that special interest groups could in the past give House members.

20.   He and Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., are chief sponsors of the product liability bill.