71.   Traffic is so bad that state lawmakers voted this week to limit vehicle circulation one day a week in greater Sao Paulo.

72.   Typically, the Senate chamber is largely empty, filling up only when the lawmakers are voting or engaged in a debate.

73.   Twelve lawmakers did not vote.

74.   Two years ago, federal lawmakers voted to allow direct sales of food to Cuba, but only for cash.

75.   Twenty-four years later, lawmakers voted for John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson and William Crawford.

76.   Only four rightist lawmakers voted against the resolution.

77.   Opposition lawmakers voted for the revised law but worried the law will not be acceptable to the United Nations.

78.   Parliamentary leaders say lawmakers can vote their consciences.

79.   A day earlier, lawmakers voted to freeze military aid to Russia under the program until Moscow halts its biological weapons development program.

80.   A leading conservative Monday called on fellow lawmakers to vote down the new Amsterdam Treaty serving as the blueprint for the euro and EU expansion.