1.   In four of the last five years, Bond has attached riders to Senate appropriations bills to prohibit the corps from spending money to change flows in the Missouri.

2.   In passing another continuing resolution Monday, the Republicans attached riders, hoping that Clinton would accept them under the pressure of a government shutdown.

3.   It is a time when bad riders are attached to blameless appropriations bills, and complex legislation is denied the measured debate it deserves.

4.   Last year, Gorton attached a rider to a Department of the Interior appropriations bill that would have eradicated tribal sovereign immunity.

5.   Lawmakers attached legislative riders that had nothing to do with spending.

6.   Republicans in Congress have attached riders to the budget reconciliation that would open the Arctic National Wildife Refuge to oil drilling and increase logging elsewhere.

7.   Riders are attached to bills for political leverage.

8.   Rep. Jim Kolbe is looking for an appropriate bill to attach the rider.

9.   Republicans have tried repeatedly to oust Noble by attaching dismissal riders to various bills, only to back down.

10.   Riders are attached to appropriations bills with little or no debate and without public scrutiny.