11.   The warning came amid continuing efforts to gain negotiating leverage over lawmakers as the Clinton administration jockeys with the Republican-led Congress over details of unrelated spending measures.

12.   Unlike the House, Senate rules allow its members to attach unrelated measures to bills.

13.   While both sides supported emergency relief, Democrats opposed the unrelated measures.

14.   While both sides supported emergency relief, Senate Democrats opposed the unrelated measures.

15.   Still other lawmakers want to attach completely unrelated measures.

16.   The move came after senators rejected an attempt to attach an unrelated measure expanding Medicaid coverage for severely disabled children.