41.   House Republicans refused to consider similar restrictions on House members although Democrats repeatedly pressed the issue.

42.   I did not press the issue because his unrehearsed candor, emitted between chomps on a plug of Virginia chaw, was persuasive.

43.   I would take the high road and tend to more pressing issues.

44.   In fact, while many Republican officials counsel Bush to keep moving forward in pressing his issues, prominent Democrats are more critical of the Gore operation.

45.   Instead, his superiors became angry with him for pressing the issue, Smith said.

46.   Indeed, Bush said he would press the issue later this month when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Shanghai.

47.   Issues are not pressed to votes.

48.   It was my sisters in feminism who first pressed this issue to its inevitable answer.

49.   James Kenney, a member of the City Council and a frequent critic of Street, has dismissed the fitness campaign as a distraction from more pressing issues.

50.   Later, Dean joined Gephardt and the Senate Democratic leader, Sen. Tom Daschle, at a news conference to press the issue.