31.   Providing cigarette makers with future legal immunity could prevent some Senate Democrats from backing tobacco legislation, the chairman of the Senate Democratic tobacco task force said today.

32.   The conservative organizations are backing new legislation introduced by Indiana Republican Senator Dan Coats last month.

33.   The Clinton administration is backing legislation that would give more families government-guaranteed mortgages.

34.   The industry is also backing legislation that would prohibit taxes on Internet commerce.

35.   The legislation is backed by U.S. English and English First, national groups that have pushed similar measures at the state level.

36.   The NRA backed that legislation and Barr has introduced a similar bill in Congress.

37.   The pipeline coalition backs legislation increasing the role of state governments in the enforcement of pipeline regulation and a stiffer set of fines.

38.   The National Right to Life Committee is backing legislation allowing relatives of people considering suicide to get a court order blocking anyone from assisting them.

39.   The publishing industry is backing legislation before the House and Senate to make it a criminal and civil offense to alter these cyber license plates.

40.   Two years ago, BofA also unsuccessfully backed legislation that would have let banks withhold internal documents of the sort now being used to build a case against it.