21.   Joseph Bruno said the bill would be amended in the next few weeks as lawmakers studied the legislation in Texas and elsewhere.

22.   Liberal Democrats lost on most of their attempts to amend the bill, as many more conservative Democrats sided with Shuster.

23.   McCain and Feingold will have to hold a fragile coalition together as opponents and supporters alike try to amend the bill.

24.   One way to try to deliver on change, he indicated, was to include the Democratic minority and allow anyone to amend bills on the floor.

25.   Opponents argue that the line-item veto grants the president the authority, in effect, to amend a bill that would normally require a constitutional amendment.

26.   Pataki has also said that he believed that the Legislature was unwilling to amend the bill.

27.   President Clinton urged Congress Wednesday to amend a bill that outlaws a specific form of late-term abortion when the life and health of woman is at risk.

28.   Republicans amended the bill in hopes of picking up additional Democratic support, but with little success.

29.   Republicans want to spend three or four days amending the bill, Dole said.

30.   Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott angrily said he would not allow the Democratic senators to amend any bill they wished to reflect the Democratic political agenda.