21.   Officials intend to pass it during the ordinary Diet session to convene in January.

22.   Passing during the race should be easier and, hopefully, more frequent.

23.   Sometimes years pass during this process, as other projects are finished.

24.   The code failed to pass Congress during the Reagan administration, but has been influential in the courts and in legal circles.

25.   The citizenry can sleep in peace and wake up in the morning without worrying that some hideous new law was passed during the night.

26.   The Endangered Species Act is the most controversial of the landmark environmental statutes passed during the Nixon era.

27.   The law was originally passed during the Civil War to deal with contractors who were allegedly selling moth-eaten blankets and weevil-infested flour to the Army.

28.   The law was passed during the Cold War to encourage an open government.

29.   The torch was figuratively passed during a reception hosted by the UPN that night, where the mix of stars provided for a few double-takes.

30.   To this day, business lobbies use the fact that Superfund was passed during a lame-duck period as an argument for its abolition.