11.   Clinton acted as the House prepared for a nonbinding vote on whether hate crimes provisions should be part of a defense bill.

12.   Leaders of Congress, which overwhelmingly condemned Arafat and supported Israel in nonbinding votes last week, acknowledged that Bush had no one else to turn to.

13.   Only minutes later, the House agreed in a nonbinding vote to make the hate crime legislation part of a defense appropriations bill.

14.   The House last month voted to tell their conferees to accept the Senate hate crime provision, but it was a nonbinding vote and cannot be enforced.

15.   The nonbinding vote came at the first annual meeting on Wednesday since the auto parts company was separated from parent General Motors Corp. a year ago.