21.   Senate leaders urged Whitman to drum up support for the proposal.

22.   Senate leaders will decide early this week where the bill will be heard.

23.   Senate leaders, however, were rather cool to the idea.

24.   Senate leaders, obedient to the private desires of their followership, are already trying to put the kibosh on an investigation of the money scandal.

25.   Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas endorsed the decision.

26.   Senate Republican leader Bob Dole, himself a presidential hopeful, treads more lightly.

27.   Senate Republican leader Robert Dole, Vice President Dan Quayle and White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, had heavily lobbied Bush to pardon Weinberger.

28.   Senate Republican leader Trent Lott has already said the committee will hold hearings next year to reexamine the new law and the challenges it faces in court.

29.   Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi conceded that backers of the amendment are one vote shy of the two-thirds margin necessary for approval.

30.   Senate Republican leaders are desperately seeking middle ground in time to begin debate on the welfare bill this month.