21.   Last week Bush endorsed a bill that would prohibit cloning embryos for purposes of research.

22.   Last week, President Clinton strongly endorsed the bill.

23.   Last week, in the Missouri General Assembly, a committee endorsed two bills that would allow the carrying of concealed guns.

24.   Mainstream organizations, including the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, have officially endorsed this bill.

25.   Many congressional Republicans were reluctant to endorse a bill that gave the federal government such a large role in local education.

26.   Matthew Fink, head of the Investment Company Institute, a mutual-fund trade group, endorsed the bill in his testimony.

27.   Monday, Clinton endorsed bills, opposed by insurance companies, to extend that protection to individuals who buy their own insurance.

28.   Most Washington state lawmakers and businesses strongly endorsed the bill.

29.   Once Clinton endorsed the bill on Wednesday, the outcome in Congress was foreordained.

30.   On Monday, Clinton endorsed bills, opposed by insurance companies, that would extend that protection to individuals buying insurance on their own.