11.   Tax bills traditionally come to the floor under a rule that does not permit amendments, and the leadership wants that tradition preserved.

12.   The church leadership wanted to remove a single sentence from the Faith and Message statement.

13.   The House Republican leadership wants the leverage it would gain in budget negotiations if this provision is signed into law.

14.   The House leadership wants to pay the kids to just go away and learn somewhere else.

15.   The new congressional leadership wants to roll back federal civil-rights rules and water down federal oversight.

16.   The most charitable is that the North Korean leadership wanted to create more of a crisis atmosphere.

17.   The Republican leadership wants delay in order to bury it.

18.   The Senate leadership wants to move the Senate library, a cozy warren of bookcases overlooking the Mall, into the basement of an adjacent Senate building.

19.   They suffer the most during recessions, yet the Republican leadership wants to help them least.

20.   Why would the leadership want more meaningful legal institutions in China, more law and lawyers?