11.   Republicans kept the Senate in session all night talking about a procedural motion on campaign finance legislation.

12.   She also joined forces with Senator Russell Feingold, the iconoclastic Democrat, on another procedural motion.

13.   Set another new rule into procedural motion that would legalize card counting in blackjack.

14.   The chief justice will rule on procedural motions and the admissibility of evidence.

15.   The Democrats threatened to tie up the proceedings with procedural motions unless the House leadership agreed to delay the debate by about six hours.

16.   The imminent defeat of yet another procedural motion meant that a victory for the president was finally guaranteed.

17.   The measure was defeated on a procedural motion, in part because Republican leaders tied it to an unrelated bill that would have allowed oil drilling in Alaska.

18.   The vote was put off because enough Republicans were leaning toward the Shays-Meehan bill that it threatened to pass on a procedural motion.

19.   The vote, on a procedural motion on whether the House would consider the hard-fought measure, effectively stymies the legislation.

20.   The vote came on a procedural motion to end debate on the drilling issue, which was presented as an amendment to a comprehensive energy bill.