31.   When he goes to Congress to lobby, conservative legislators refuse to see him.

32.   Opposition Conservative legislator Keith Harding appealed earlier for the place of marriage to be more formally enshrined in the repeal legislation.

33.   Opposition leaders accused the government Wednesday of designing the election schedule to block publication of an official inquiry into allegations of unethical behavior by Conservative legislators.

34.   Opposition Conservative Party legislators said he should apologize.

35.   Opposition parties lie in wait to spring a no-confidence vote, perhaps in the autumn, or for another Conservative legislator to die or defect.

36.   Prime Minister John Howard, who is under pressure from conservative legislators to tighten up the law, declined to criticize the Larrakia claim directly.

37.   A Conservative legislator, Sir Michael Shersby, died a week after the Labor Party ousted the Tories from office in a landslide electoral victory.

38.   A maverick Conservative legislator gave Prime Minister John Major a slightly larger edge in the House of Commons by returning to the government fold Wednesday.

39.   Al Fayed has been involved in a political sleaze scandal, saying he paid Conservative legislators to raise questions for him in the House of Commons.

40.   Another eight Conservative legislators in the House of Commons abstained in an attempt to deny Major outright victory and force a second ballot with new contenders.