1.   Although a voice vote in the House would have blocked the subsidies, the issue is back in the military appropriations bill, which is in a conference committee.

2.   Although it will take considerable movement for legislation to emerge from a conference committee, some lawmakers said they believed a compromise could be reached.

3.   Although the health bill passed unanimously Tuesday, Dole said he may fight for the provision in a House-Senate conference committee.

4.   And conference committees are generally not formed until the final hectic days of the legislative session, when bills often are hard to track.

5.   And a final measure would still have to be drafted by a House-Senate conference committee.

6.   And House and Senate Republicans had made little effort to consult Democratic members of the conference committee, alienating them so much that no Democrat signed the conference report.

7.   And so it was here Wednesday, at the first conference committee meeting ever on the New York state budget.

8.   And without a compromise, gun legislation is unlikely to emerge from the House-Senate conference committee where it has been stuck for months.

9.   Another, placing restrictions on when state and local governments should pay for federal programs, passed and is held up in a House-Senate conference committee.

10.   Any differences between its version and that of the House will be negotiated in a conference committee.