31.   The same Quinn amendment failed in the railroad subcommittee.

32.   Those amendments failed.

33.   When it came up for a vote in the House, the amendment failed.

34.   A Greens party senator, Bob Brown, sought a special exemption for them but his amendment failed.

35.   But its amendment failed too.

36.   Mary Kay Thatcher, a lobbyist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, had expressed confidence before the vote that the amendment would fail.

37.   Most amendments have failed at the ballot box.

38.   Republican tax amendment fails in House.

39.   Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole sought the delay, acknowledging the amendment could fail to win the necessary two-thirds majority needed to send it to the states.