1.   Another option is to attach the bill as a provision to another bill.

2.   As late as Friday, aides to McCain were privately conceding defeat on the amendment and plotting guerrilla tactics to attach the bill to any other piece of legislation.

3.   Brownback, irritated, is threatening to attach his bill as an amendment to other legislation to force a vote on it.

4.   However, this year the music industry is seeking an extension of copyrights, and the small business interests aim to attach their bill to that measure.

5.   In January, Barrett unsuccessfully lobbied Republicans to get his bill attached to the Congressional Accountability Act.

6.   In the Senate, Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., has plenty of parliamentary tools to keep them from attaching their bill to other legislation.

7.   McCain aides said those bills were attached to unrelated measures that McCain opposed.

8.   McCain threatened to attach the bill as an amendment to White House-backed legislation unless he won permission for earlier floor consideration of his legislation.

9.   McCain has promised to attach his bill to every piece of legislation before the Senate in the coming weeks.

10.   None had any dollar bills attached.