21.   In successive procedural votes, senators failed to halt debate on two competing proposals.

22.   In the House, Democrats forced five procedural votes in failed efforts to bring the measure up.

23.   Instead, House Democrats were struggling Friday to figure out how to rescue their crime bill, which failed on a procedural vote Thursday.

24.   Last Monday, he noted, there had been a procedural vote in the State Senate, which the pro-rent regulation forces had lost.

25.   Last week, Gingrich came close to defeating the lobbying reform bill on a procedural vote.

26.   Livingston said he expects party loyalty to prevail on the procedural votes Democrats may try to force the censure option to the House floor.

27.   Lott pulled the legislation off the floor with the consent of the Republican majority after a pivotal pair of procedural votes.

28.   McCain angered Democrats by not informing them that he would be moving abruptly yesterday for a procedural vote on his own bill.

29.   On a procedural vote, they supported a bill that would set up a loan program for the steel industry.

30.   Otherwise, the legislation could only be considered after separate procedural votes to waive the House and Senate parliamentary rules.