41.   Republicans hold a slim majority of six seats in the House.

42.   Similar legislation died in the Senate earlier this year when it drew a slim majority but not enough votes to cut off a filibuster.

43.   Since then, though they have held their slim majorities, they have lacked the legislative skill to do much with them against a Democratic president.

44.   Since the Republicans hold only slim majorities in the House and Senate, Clinton has a potent weapon in the presidential veto.

45.   Slim Democratic majorities dominate in each house now, but they may not survive November.

46.   The center-left is badly divided and has a slim majority in both houses, though it is wafer thin in the lower house.

47.   The Democrats retained only a slim congressional majority.

48.   The Democrats formally assumed control of the Senate on Wednesday, achieving a slim majority through the defection of Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont from the Republican ranks.

49.   The Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, deposed from seven decades in power when Fox was elected nearly two years ago, holds a slim majority in Congress.

50.   The measure passed the House by a slim majority, but died in the Senate.