1.   And we see it in the rush to honor a veteran congressman who is suffering a terminal illness.

2.   As for the big picture, the veteran congressman said he will score big points with his party if he succeeds.

3.   As veteran congressman, Donnelly is able to use his campaign funds for personal use after paying income tax.

4.   He gained believers along the way, but his Democratic primary victory over two veteran congressmen and a Houston lawyer still was considered unbelievable.

5.   If he does not want to hurt his constituents by depriving them of the services of a veteran congressman, how much time does he owe them now?

6.   Morales beat two veteran congressmen and a former Harris County Democratic Party chairman to win the right to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm in November.

7.   Rep. Jim Leach, a veteran Republican congressman from Iowa, sees a more complicated scenario with many factors at play.

8.   The party has two veteran congressmen, Reps. Peter DeFazio and Ron Wyden, who have long harbored Senate ambitions.

9.   The veteran congressman insisted that the new Republican economic plan was not incompatible with traditional Republican desires to eliminate the federal deficit.

10.   The veteran congressman, speaking to reporters before Dole addressed a Fourth of July crowd Thursday, suggested that only semantics separated them.