31.   While Democratic leaders stressed that ultimately members must vote their conscience, Judiciary Committee members lobbied their fence-sitting colleagues in the hopes of bringing them around.

32.   While DeLay is saying GOP members are free to vote their consciences, he is working behind the scenes to make Republicans follow him, not King.

33.   Will they vote their consciences?

34.   Parliamentary leaders say lawmakers can vote their consciences.

35.   Assistant Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada has told Democrats they can vote their conscience, an aide said Thursday.

36.   Assistant Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada has told Democrats they can vote their conscience, an aide said today.

37.   But even his own Socialist Party seems to have distanced itself from him, saying the legislators should vote their conscience.

38.   But federal lawmakers have been permitted to vote their consciences, so there is no way to predict which way a vote would go.

39.   But federal lawmakers have been permitted to vote their consciences by their parties, so there is no way to predict which way a vote would go.

40.   He and other party leaders said Social Democratic members of parliament should be able to vote their conscience on Friday.