11.   Council leaders and staff members said they had not decided exactly how to amend the bill.

12.   Danburg said she would have amended the bill and could have passed it, if Bush had helped.

13.   Democratic Representative Ron Kind of Wisconsin wants to amend the bill by shifting subsidies away from crops and toward better land stewardship.

14.   Democrats and moderate Republicans hope to amend that bill on the floor with a provision that would require light trucks to begin achieving the same gas mileage as cars.

15.   Gramm said Monday that he or a colleague would make a procedural motion, possibly Tuesday, to allow the Senate to amend the bill.

16.   Huffington responded that as a member of the House GOP minority he had little influence over legislation, even being prohibited from amending many bills on the House floor.

17.   If the Senate were to amend the bill, it would have to be returned to the House, where upper chamber changes would be considered.

18.   In his letter to Congress, Clinton urged lawmakers to amend a bill that outlaws a late-term abortion procedure called dilation and evacuation.

19.   Instead, he says, he played only a small role in trying to amend the bill that ultimately closed it.