21.   Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., said the Senate should spend its time on anti-terrorism measures instead of hate crime legislation.

22.   She also expressed support for hate crimes legislation and a gun control measure that would limit access to convicted batterers, encouraging women to lobby their legislators.

23.   Ten states, largely in the South and Southwest, do not have any hate crime legislation at all.

24.   That has led to calls for new hate crimes legislation.

25.   The Human Rights Campaign is pressing Congress to approve federal hate crimes legislation.

26.   The Senate approved the hate crimes legislation as an amendment to the annual military spending bill.

27.   The way to increase awareness and stamp out bigotry is for politicians to pass stronger hate crime legislation at the federal, state and local levels, she said.

28.   There are many good reasons not to support hate crime legislation.

29.   While there is federal hate crimes legislation, it only covers race, color, religion, and national origin.

30.   A spokeswoman for the governor would say only that Perry planned to announce his intentions regarding the hate crime legislation Friday afternoon.