1.   Both he and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, voted for the Ashcroft amendment to strip the bill of all taxes.

2.   But the leaders also decided to strip the bill of a controversial provision that would have allowed banks to merge with insurance companies.

3.   Gingrich, who had pledged to help save Sterling Forest, persuaded his colleagues to strip the bill of several items certain to invite a Presidential veto.

4.   Lott introduced seven amendments that would have the effect of stripping the bill of most of its existing supporters without adding enough new ones to make up the difference.

5.   On Monday, Davis voted against the Republican effort to strip the bill of those potentially fatal amendments.

6.   Over objections from conservatives, the bill was stripped of requirements that welfare recipients work for benefits, Novak wrote.

7.   Republicans earlier this month had stripped the bill of its most controversial provision, which would have barred illegal immigrant children from public schools.

8.   The bill was stripped to a bare-minimum version to get it to the Senate floor, according to Ives.

9.   The best one can hope for is a series of ameliorative amendments that strip the bill of its worst provisions while adding others of real value.

10.   The conference committee should do everything it can to avoid a confrontation by stripping the bills of provisions that have no business being there in the first place.