1.   The bill would apply to any article which has a blade or is sharply pointed, except a folding pocketknife with a blade of less than three inches.

2.   Among its many questionable provisions, the bill would apply restrictions to on-line media that do not apply to printed or spoken expression.

3.   Another big problem is that the bill applies to new law and does not address the billions in unfunded mandates from old law.

4.   Because of the long delay, officials have said they are uncertain for which trips the phone bill applies.

5.   Both bills would apply only to federal crimes.

6.   -- Since the bill applies only to new laws, would it govern the periodic decisions of Congress to extend laws already on the books?

7.   A key difference is that the Senate bill does not apply to employees of the Roman Catholic Church or any other organization with religious objections to infertility treatments.

8.   But as Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee noted Tuesday, the Shays-Meehan bill would not apply to fund-raising by independent groups like the NAACP.

9.   But Rogan said his bill applies only to domestic name registrations, and that the White House wants to shift control over Internet trademarks to an international tribunal.

10.   Clements also charged that the bill would retroactively apply to those already sentenced to die and give their attorneys new grounds for years of expensive appeals and delays.