1.   Back in the Senate, Sen. J. James Exon, D-Neb, tried to attach a similar amendment to an unrelated Republican measure.

2.   Both parties agree on the need for disaster relief, but the legislation providing for it has become bogged down in bickering over unrelated measures.

3.   But the environmental movement says Gorton has a long record of anti-environmental votes and a history of attaching anti-environmental provisions to unrelated spending measures.

4.   McCain aides said those bills were attached to unrelated measures that McCain opposed.

5.   More likely, supporters will try to move the proposal as a separate bill or attach it to another, unrelated measure.

6.   Rubin said he expects Congress to increase the ceiling without adding unrelated measures like those that prompted Clinton to veto earlier debt-limit legislation.

7.   Such a limit likely would preclude an unrelated measure, such as campaign finance reform.

8.   The collapse in talks before the late-night deal was caused largely by the longstanding Albany strategy of linking unrelated measures to exert leverage.

9.   The collapse in talks Thursday was largely caused by the longstanding Albany strategy of linking unrelated measures to exert leverage.

10.   The tax bill contained two unrelated measures.