11.   Both telephone and electric companies want freer reign over their own prices and costs, and most lawmakers want to open these traditional monopolies to competition.

12.   A Texas lawmaker wants the state to pay half of the cost of prosecuting the six prison escapees caught in Colorado last week.

13.   After all, what lawmaker would want to go on the record in favor of secrecy?

14.   Allen Michel, a professor of finance at Boston University, said lawmakers may want to look at what return Raytheon shareholders are getting for their investment.

15.   Almost all the lawmakers want the two bills to be enacted.

16.   All is not well when it comes to health care for black Americans, and some lawmakers want to change that.

17.   Bush wants to shrink the Agriculture Department, but lawmakers want to give billions to farmers.

18.   But Democratic state lawmakers also want to use the extra cash for education or other programs.

19.   But in the process, lawmakers also wanted to finally make homosexuality legal in Missouri.