1.   And people called their senators and told them so.

2.   At that point, according to various officials, Clinton began calling Democratic senators to persuade them to oppose the Hatch-Kennedy plan.

3.   But Bush has not called the senator, a Jeffords aide said.

4.   Cohen called Republican senators at home, and Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright put in a call to wavering Senator Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine.

5.   Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen have called wavering senators on behalf of Jones, who would become the first black secretary of the Air Force.

6.   He urged his audience to call senators with that message.

7.   He said he had called wavering senators over the weekend.

8.   Jim Nicholson, the chairman of the Republican National Committee sent out a letter to Republicans asking them to call Democratic senators.

9.   One of a group of wealthy Americans who have campaigned to keep the inheritance tax, Gates, the father of the Microsoft mogul, called key senators.

10.   Over the weekend, each senator had been called at least once by Barnes.