41.   Shinshinto opposition party politicians continued a sit-in begun Monday in a budget committee room the lower house of parliament, blocking a vote on the bill.

42.   State Rep. John Longoria prefiled two bills that, if Texans are lucky, will never see light outside of a committee room.

43.   Supporters of the motion swarmed into committee rooms to watch the debate on television while others milled about the entrances to the Parliament.

44.   That brought a sigh of relief from high-tech industry lobbyists filling the audience of the Senate committee room.

45.   The action unfolds in an all-purpose committee room, which set designer Bill Eigenbrodt makes look governmental with numbing expanses of gray marble and white pillars.

46.   The committee room was small and crowded.

47.   The group continued to reshape the measure and lobby for it from committee rooms and a room off the House floor until it passed.

48.   The main opposition party, Shinshinto, yesterday ended its sit-in that had blocked the entrance of the lower house budget committee room.

49.   The main opposition party, Shinshinto, Monday ended its sit-in that had blocked the entrance of the lower house budget committee room.

50.   The politically charged investigations that once filled committee rooms in Washington have all but vanished since George W. Bush became president.