11.   A vote to end debate is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

12.   All this has happened under the guise of a mere procedural rule of the Senate, the cloture rule on ending debate.

13.   But Democrats insisted that Lott, R-Miss., was trying to end debate on a bill that had already caused the GOP considerable embarrassment.

14.   But Senate rules require two days to pass between the time a group of senators requests that debate be shut off and the vote on ending debate is held.

15.   But that hardly ends the debate involved in making a biopic whose subject is the most controversial since Larry Flynt.

16.   But the debate agreement did not end the debate about the debates.

17.   But, of course, the actions in the Senate chamber did not end the debate.

18.   But when Dole and other Republicans brought the bill up again for a stand-alone vote, Democrats effectively stalled the measure by refusing to end debate.

19.   By pushing Zip as an installed feature, Iomega hopes to end any debate about its status as a new standard.

20.   Dole also moved to end debate on the civil litigation issue as early as Thursday.