31.   Gun control proponents seized on two aspects of the Hyde-McCollum legislation they said would dramatically weaken similar provisions narrowly passed by the Senate.

32.   He has even hinted he would be open to a similar provision requiring shareholder approval of political spending by businesses.

33.   He said the Minnesota settlement, which Texas was attempting to match, did not include a similar provision.

34.   House negotiators agreed after the House on Wednesday passed a stand-alone bill with similar provisions.

35.   House gun-control advocates failed to insert a similar provision into the House version of the bill.

36.   House rules include a similar provision for all executive branch employees.

37.   Hunter reaffirmed his support for the idea just two days after Gingrich backed away from a similar provision in the Contract With America.

38.   It follows similar provisions that restored copyrights to Mexican and Canadian film and television works under the North American Free Trade Agreement.

39.   Judge Kaye noted that courts in five other states had invalidated similar plea-bargaining provisions in death penalty laws for the same reason.

40.   Kennedy drafted his proposed amendment earlier this month, after Sen. Alan Simpson, a Wyoming Republican, announced he would withdraw similar provision from the immigration bill.