1.   Along with House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois, they have tried since May to figure out how to strip the Cuba language out of the agriculture bill.

2.   An important agriculture spending bill is up for a floor vote late in the day.

3.   And the agriculture bill actually makes the U.S. system worse than the bloated, protectionist European subsidy regime, which is saying something.

4.   And the difficulty of opposing the entire agriculture bill because it contains anti-abortion language was demonstrated by the House.

5.   A House version of the agriculture spending bill includes the prohibition, while the Senate version does not.

6.   Coburn said Wednesday that he intended to keep trying to talk the agriculture bill to death.

7.   Congress will be considering a separate new agriculture bill this year.

8.   Conservatives brought the House to a grinding halt by offering endless amendments to an agriculture bill.

9.   He noted that he had appointed Helms as conferee on an agriculture bill.

10.   House Republicans said they hoped to attach it to an agriculture spending bill after the holiday recess, but if Democratic objections persist, the deal could be jeopardized.