31.   He acknowledged that this would be difficult to achieve because lawmakers would not want to vote against the defense bill while the nation is at war.

32.   He should stick to them even if it means vetoing unacceptable legislation and provoking a fight that lawmakers do not want.

33.   Hollings, knowing that his fellow lawmakers did not want to be drawn into a battle on the Senate floor, spent weeks trying to smoothe out differences.

34.   Honan questioned why lawmakers want to abolish citizen lawsuits.

35.   If lawmakers want to remove the taint, they can still do so by passing the Shays-Meehan soft-money fund-raising ban in the House.

36.   If GOP lawmakers really want to draw the sting of the Common Sense initiative, they should include mandatory hearings in the plan.

37.   If lawmakers want to push some of that cynicism back, they have only to listen to the people who sent them to office in the first place.

38.   If lawmakers want to sacrifice some of the money they hope to get, the government could wait to March to renew the fund, Martins said.

39.   If the lawmakers want credit for reducing taxes, they must take the heat for identifying how to make up for the lost revenues.

40.   If lawmakers want to, or if he decides to force the issue.