1.   A handful of Republican senators derailed a bill designed to protect nursing home residents from abuse.

2.   But concerted opposition from labor unions and subcontractors, who would stand to lose money and jobs under the plan, derailed the bill Sunday morning.

3.   Clinton said that amendment would allow a small number of lawmakers to derail spending bills if they disagreed with the funding levels.

4.   Dingell and Norwood, an Augusta, Ga., dentist, are concerned that House Republican leaders will use legislative procedures to derail their bill.

5.   Few members of either party see an end to the bitterness that has derailed numerous bills in the increasingly hostile and deadlocked Congress.

6.   However, it remains unclear whether the caucus could hold their members together and derail a bill that many lawmakers are anxious to pass before the November elections.

7.   It is possible, however, that even if the Gallegly language were removed that the bill might be derailed.

8.   Its true support was never tested because the bill was derailed at the time by a fight over the rules of debate.

9.   Last night, Graham engaged in a heated argument in a last-ditch effort to derail the bill.

10.   Last year, unions were pivotal in derailing the bill, which would have made it easier to negotiate free-trade agreements with more countries.