11.   Congress was consumed with the baseball developments Wednesday but only a few Democratic lawmakers called for immediate action.

12.   Democratic lawmakers Thursday called Republicans heartless for proposing budget cuts they say would take food from the mouths of needy children.

13.   Even though campus TAAS performance is only one part in a long teacher evaluation process, lawmakers did not call for campus accountability.

14.   Except for Rep. Paul McHale, D-Pa., all the lawmakers calling for the president to step down are Republicans.

15.   In recent months, lawmakers have called for new fiscal stimulus to aid growth, even though the government was maintaining its original forecast for expansion.

16.   Indeed, many lawmakers called the deal no more than a fig leaf, and conservative Democrats said Gingrich would get no help from them.

17.   In the past, several Republican lawmakers have called for privatizing Social Security.

18.   Just last week, California lawmakers called for a federal investigation into how flu vaccine is distributed because of concerns that vulnerable people were not immunized first.

19.   Lawmakers called for the decision to be reversed either by the full appellate court or the Supreme Court.

20.   Lawmakers have also called for allowing private contractors to do more cleanup work at depots if it would cut costs.