1.   A bipartisan effort to censure the president appeared dead Friday as Texas Republican Sen. Phil Gramm used a procedural maneuver to block his colleagues from voting on the resolution.

2.   But lawmakers are expected to avoid voting directly on the resolution through a procedural maneuver.

3.   But in the first major test vote tonight, the House rejected a Democratic-led procedural maneuver to reverse the earlier decision to drop the financing provision.

4.   But Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the majority leader, promised to use a procedural maneuver to keep the Democrats from amending the marriage bill.

5.   But using a procedural maneuver, Supervisor Leland Yee blocked passage of the resolution and forced the measure to be sent to committee for a hearing.

6.   China is chief among them, and has used a procedural maneuver to avoid full-fledged examination of its human rights practices.

7.   For the last decade, China has avoided debates on its record with a procedural maneuver.

8.   House Majority Whip David Eberhart, R-north Phoenix, used a rare procedural maneuver that allowed lawmakers to defeat the bill without having their votes recorded.

9.   In the end, Dole voted with him in a procedural maneuver that will let him call for another vote on the amendment later.

10.   It was Eberhart who triggered a rare procedural maneuver that allowed lawmakers to kill a lobbying-reform bill without having their votes recorded by name.