41.   The law banned reproductive cloning and established the commission to make recommendations about how to proceed when the law expires.

42.   The law expires this year.

43.   The law would expire in five years, after which the issue would presumably be revisited.

44.   The law will expire at the end of June unless Congress renews it.

45.   The law expires at the end of June and is unraveling anyway because patients are increasingly turning to HMOs.

46.   The leaders would like to have the laws expire in early December.

47.   The old law expired midnight last Sunday.

48.   The old law expires Saturday.

49.   The ranking Democrat on the committee, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, also warned his colleagues against letting the law expire.

50.   Throughout the day, Pataki and Democrats contended that the other side should be blamed if the loft law expired.