31.   This year, however, the House and Senate voted along party lines to do just that, setting the stage for the current tumult.

32.   Voting largely along party lines, the House passed legislation intended to curtail the number of lawsuits in federal courts.

33.   Voting along party lines Tuesday evening, the Senate rejected a Republican move to invoke cloture and bring the bankruptcy bill to a vote.

34.   Voting along straight party lines Tuesday, the Democratic-controlled council easily overrode items that Giuliani had vetoed.

35.   Voting largely along party lines, senators defeated an amendment that would have required background checks for anyone who purchased guns at a gun show.

36.   Pakistanis vote along ethnic lines in local races.

37.   A political party of former leftist guerrillas has expelled five of its legislators for refusing to vote along party lines during a fierce budget battle last year.

38.   Even then, many times in the past, senators have not voted along party lines or affiliations and it is common for them to support administration measures.

39.   Everyone else voted along party lines.

40.   In the United States, the Republican-controlled lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives, voted along party lines last December to impeach President Clinton.