21.   The House is expected to continue debating gun control legislation next week.

22.   The House is expected to take up the census issue again later this week when it debates legislation to finance the Commerce Department, which includes the Census Bureau.

23.   The maneuvers came as the Senate spent a full day debating the legislation, with the first votes scheduled for Thursday.

24.   The Senate adjourned on Friday for its summer vacation without debating the legislation, but leaders of both parties said they hoped to take it up in September.

25.   The Senate is debating legislation to create a regulatory board to oversee the accounting industry and certify accountants.

26.   The Senate is expected to debate similar legislation before the August recess.

27.   The welfare legislation will be debated on the House floor in the next few days.

28.   This fall, the Senate will debate legislation co-sponsored by McCain and Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., that would limit campaign cash.

29.   This month, state legislatures in Ohio and Oklahoma are debating legislation that would toughen penalties for animal exhibitors who pump up animals with drugs or other foreign substances.

30.   We ask that the ruling and opposition parties reconsider, as they debate this legislation, just what the jusen problem is.