31.   The Constitution does include a specific provision that gives Congress power over patents and copyrights.

32.   The Framers included specific provisions for impeachment in the Constitution because they understood that only the most serious forms of public wrongdoing warranted the most severe political remedy.

33.   The more specific provision controls the general.

34.   The Line Item Veto Act, which passed the House with strong bipartisan support, would allow the president to veto specific provisions in spending bills.

35.   The line item veto allows the president to cancel specific provisions in tax, budget and spending bills rather than blocking the entire legislation.

36.   The United States, like any other member nation, has the option of spelling out its reservations on specific provisions but accepting the conference document as a whole.

37.   They declined to comment on specific provisions until they see the actual bill.

38.   They are joined by those who, like Hollings, oppose the pact because of specific provisions.

39.   While there is nothing in the existing law that would prohibit such an action, he said, there is no specific provision in the law that permits it.

40.   Other groups that are strong proponents of limiting campaign spending are not supporting Shays-Meehan because of specific provisions in the bill.