1.   Moving with unusual speed, the House is expected to approve on Friday a controversial bill to limit gay Marriages.

2.   A Colombian Senate committee voted Tuesday to allow a controversial bill that would allow the extradition of suspected drug-traffickers to proceed further through the legislative process.

3.   A House subcommittee drafts a controversial bill that opponents say would gut programs for the elderly.

4.   A committee of the Colombian senate voted to allow a controversial bill that would permit the extradition of suspected drug-traffickers to proceed further through the legislative process.

5.   A controversial bill allowing caning and whippings as corporal punishment for certain crimes died Tuesday in the Mississippi Legislature.

6.   Congress approved the controversial judicial bill this week.

7.   Controversial bills have a way of never re-emerging from House-Senate conferences.

8.   Following a national trend, a pair of Senate committees this week approved a controversial bill allowing covenant marriages.

9.   Protections allowing bills to come up for a vote are important because in the last few years Lott has resorted to various maneuvers to prevent consideration of controversial bills.