21.   The measures were attached to a large agriculture spending bill that now moves to a vote by the full House and Senate.

22.   The measure was attached to sweeping legislation that would allow banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge.

23.   The measure is now attached to an agriculture spending bill, which is tangled up in a dispute over legislation to weaken the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba.

24.   The measures are attached to agriculture appropriations bills that are being reviewed by a conference committee, which works out the differences between the House and Senate versions.

25.   The only remaining obstacle is the House, where a similar measure is attached to a water resources bill that is bogged down in unrelated partisan disputes.

26.   The Republican measure was attached to a mammoth bill that funds the departments of Commerce, State and Justice, as well as the District of Columbia.

27.   The Resources Committee legislation, to which the arctic drilling measure was attached, was passed by the full committee Tuesday night.

28.   The salvage timber measure is attached to a package of disaster relief programs and spending cuts.

29.   They threatened to use parliamentary rules to attach their measure to other crucial bills next month and hold up the proceedings in order to get a vote.

30.   This week they plan to attach the measure to a Treasury spending bill that is before a conference committee.