21.   Lawmakers will make final decisions on those bills when they return from summer break next month.

22.   Lawmakers made it clear last year that once the money ran out, no more applicants for the program would be accepted.

23.   Lawmakers on Capitol Hill face an uphill task in crafting a budget that lowers the deficit while reducing taxes, a pledge both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have made.

24.   Lawmakers also made California one of the first states to allow mothers to anonymously abandon newborn babies at hospital emergency rooms without fear of criminal prosecution.

25.   Lawmakers will make their final pitches to save bases Monday and Tuesday.

26.   Non-Jewish lawmakers made emotional references to the Holocaust as well.

27.   No state lawmaker has made such an explicit threat, but in recent interviews legislators clearly indicated a desire for more control over what happens at universities.

28.   Recently, U.S. lawmakers have made it clear that Deutsche Telekom, would face an uphill battle if it tried to buy Sprint.

29.   Showing that no sexual fetish goes unexploited by the Internet or unpunished by the Legislature, California lawmakers have made video peeping the newest anti-crime crusade.

30.   Since the murderous rampage at Columbine High School in Colorado two years ago, California lawmakers have made anti-violence programs a fiscal priority.