11.   Democrats are also making strong bids for at least two congressional seats and for control of the state assembly.

12.   Depending on their outcome, state assembly elections would follow later this year, something which the separatists virulently oppose.

13.   Devi was sworn in three weeks ago after the party her husband leads won the largest number of seats in the state assembly.

14.   Democrats who control the state assembly want to maintain the hospital charges and even expand state-financed health-care programs.

15.   Each will hold elections for their assemblies, as well as for the joint state assembly.

16.   For Luiza Maria Farias, the Real Plan means more than the asphalt that a state assembly candidate recently splashed down her alleyway in hopes of winning the election.

17.   He became mayor the next year, then won election to the state assembly.

18.   He was then whisked to the state assembly building, where he faced hundreds of cameramen and journalists in a grand conference room.

19.   In July, the West Bengal state assembly unanimously agreed.

20.   In January, a driver plowed his tractor trailer at high speed into the state Capitol in Sacramento, just as the state assembly was adjourning.