11.   The House vote followed nearly three hours of debate amid heavy Capitol security, in part because the issue attracted huge public attention.

12.   The FTC vote follows weeks of intense negotiations between company attorneys and the FTC staff.

13.   The GT vote follows a yearlong battle for control of the fund between San Francisco-based GT Capital Management and Hong Kong- based Regent Pacific Group.

14.   The House vote followed four hours of floor remarks in which legislators voiced pent-up frustration with an agency notorious for long delays, surly service and antiquated computers.

15.   The nearly unanimous vote followed an earlier rejection of attempts to add a tax cut measure to the patient protection bill.

16.   The Senate vote also followed the adoption of several other amendments.

17.   The Senate vote follows a vote by the lower house, the Chamber of Representatives, which went even further toward freeing prisoners.

18.   The recent vote followed two years of studies and heated debate that pitted some who favored a ban on the watercraft against industry representatives who opposed curbs.

19.   The two votes Wednesday followed Senate passage Tuesday of a minimum wage increase.

20.   The vote followed years of criticism by civic groups of senators traveling to luxury resorts, courtesy of lobbyists who sought their votes.