21.   Southern states also would come out with more money in this bill than any of the other half-dozen competing bills.

22.   The anti-spam wording was a compromise between Sens. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., and Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, who filed competing bills last year.

23.   The competing bills also call for study of tagging ammonium nitrate or adding chemicals that would render it harmless.

24.   The debate is only beginning in Congress, where President Clinton and presidential candidate Sen. Bob Dole are pushing competing anti-terrorism bills.

25.   The House Republican leadership is urging a competing bill, sponsored by Rep. Ernie Fletcher, R-Ky., that tightly restricts lawsuits.

26.   The issue is now being joined in the Senate Agriculture Committee, where there are several competing bills.

27.   The Senate and House have passed competing bills granting patients new rights to sue their managed care plans and their insurance companies.

28.   Two competing FAA reform bills are currently before Congress.

29.   Two competing bills have been filed, one similar to the House measure and another that would allow therapeutic cloning.

30.   Viatical settlements will be getting a lot of publicity in the coming months thanks to two competing state bills that were introduced last month.