1.   And Republican leaders will be allowed to submit another competing bill.

2.   Another difference between the competing bills is over the matter of which executive agency would have authority over the federal security workers in airports.

3.   As early as Tuesday, the House of Representatives is expected to consider two competing cloning bills.

4.   As early as Tuesday, the House is expected to consider two competing cloning bills.

5.   A competing bill is also pending in the Senate sponsored by Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat.

6.   A competing bill sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey of New York is much better.

7.   A competing bill without the user fees is working its way through the House.

8.   A group of Republican and Democratic senators said they were scrapping their competing bills and endorsing the sweeping tobacco legislation sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

9.   But the debate in the Senate, which began last Thursday, was complicated from the outset by the introduction of two competing Republican bills.

10.   Competing bills to waive the certification process have been filed by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.