1.   DeLay this year worked to kill a measure by Rep. John Bryant, D-Dallas, to bar all lobbyist-paid gifts and trips for members.

2.   That would allow opponents to say they are voting for the effort to clean up politics even as they work to kill it.

3.   There have been times when he thought he had convinced the organization not to oppose a bill, only to have NRA lobbyists work to kill it.

4.   A man who opened fire at a furniture plant where he worked, killing a manager, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday.

5.   A man who opened fire at a furniture plant where he worked, killing a floor manager, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday.