21.   The Senate rejected an amendment matching the raise, but it will be subject to negotiations before a vote on the bill.

22.   The Senate rejected Democratic amendments that would have increased spending for public school construction and additional teachers.

23.   The Senate rejected that amendment.

24.   The subcommittee, on a party-line vote, rejected an amendment to restore the COPS program.

25.   The vote to reject the amendment could complicate prospects for passing the bill this year.

26.   The Ways and Means panel tonight rejected an amendment by Rep. Benjamin Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, to eliminate the teaching hospital payments.

27.   They need to submerge their partisan instincts and reject these amendments no matter how tempting it may be to go along with them.

28.   We urge lawmakers to stand firm, as they have in the past, and reject those amendments.

29.   Yet indigenous leaders overwhelmingly rejected the amendments as an affront and said they would undermine government efforts to resolve a seven-year-old Indian uprising in Chiapas.

30.   Ahern said many voters who rejected the amendment were Fianna Fail supporters who would remain loyal at election time.