41.   That has led to calls for new hate crimes legislation.

42.   The best claim the Democrats can make -- and President Bill Clinton did -- is that a bipartisan effort on crime legislation carried the day in the House.

43.   The House included the act in its crime legislation, but the Senate voted overwhelmingly to exclude it.

44.   The House split up the crime legislation to put off a vote on a bill that would repeal the ban on assault weapons, which was passed last year.

45.   The Human Rights Campaign is pressing Congress to approve federal hate crimes legislation.

46.   The question was where did Bush stand on hate crime legislation.

47.   The respondents favored many elements of the federal crime legislation -- building more jails, expanding the death penalty, tightening gun controls.

48.   The Senate approved the hate crimes legislation as an amendment to the annual military spending bill.

49.   The way to increase awareness and stamp out bigotry is for politicians to pass stronger hate crime legislation at the federal, state and local levels, she said.

50.   Then there is the plan to redo the omnibus crime legislation passed by Congress last year.