1.   Congress refused to enact the bill.

2.   However, he said crunch time has come to get a farm bill enacted into law.

3.   As the bills have been enacted in one state after another, some members of Congress have sought to put a similar provision into federal law.

4.   At least two other states attempted and failed to enact reform bills, and both appear ready to try again this year.

5.   Because the legislative session is winding down, it is not clear whether the bill can be enacted before the lawmakers end their session next month.

6.   Almost all the lawmakers want the two bills to be enacted.

7.   But he pledged that the bill would be enacted eventually.

8.   Clinton said the federal survey could be used to target companies for such fines if a tobacco bill was enacted later this year.

9.   Commission Chairman Bradford Smith declined to take a position on the amendment but noted that new regulations will have to be written if the bill is enacted.

10.   Dobson is working with Republicans such as Senators Dan R. Coats of Indiana and John Ashcroft of Missouri to enact bills intended to slow the explosive growth of gambling.