11.   Prospects for enactment of a product liability bill capping punitive damages against companies and protecting manufacturers when consumers are at fault, are better this year, Wickett said.

12.   Rep. George Gekas pushes Congress to pass the product liability bill by a margin sufficient to override a presidential veto.

13.   Roland said the White House negotiating team will help provide the answers needed to draft a product liability bill that Clinton would sign.

14.   Sens. Dodd and Lieberman are attacked by Ralph Nader for their product liability bill, which Nader says will jeopardize consumer health and safety.

15.   Sen. John Ashcroft, a Missouri Republican, is a chief sponsor of the new product liability bill.

16.   The product liability bill was passed by both houses of Congress with bipartisan support.

17.   The trial lawyers have been successful in defeating measures in Congress they oppose, including a product liability bill that President Clinton vetoed last year.

18.   There is also the question of what could be a huge legal liability bill.

19.   The lawmakers also were expected to vote on the general malpractice provision and other medical-malpractice amendments to the product liability bill.