1.   As chairman of the House Banking Committee, Gonzalez won fame for his investigations into the savings and loans scandal and for his impassioned floor speeches.

2.   A former majority leader himself, his prickliness about senatorial prerogatives and rambling floor speeches citing Roman history are legend.

3.   Democratic Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., obliquely referred to the controversy in a floor speech before Congress left town.

4.   During a Rules Committee meeting, she flips through files and newspaper clippings and also prepares for a floor speech on the budget bill.

5.   Feinstein devoted part of her floor speech to the push for censure.

6.   He won narrowly in a vote of the full House earlier this month after apologizing for his conduct in a floor speech.

7.   House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday urged the prompt dismissal of an ethics complaint that alleges he improperly used a floor speech to sell tapes of his college course.

8.   House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who made a rare floor speech on the issue, sought to put a very different emphasis on the measure.

9.   His floor speeches can be deliberate but dispassionate.

10.   Hutchison asked her fellow senators in her floor speech in the closed final deliberations.