51.   In the meantime, committees will not vote on legislation or nominations.

52.   It is very unusual for a Senate committee to vote to send a major bill to the floor over the opposition of its chairman.

53.   Last week, a House committee voted virtually to destroy the National Endowment for the Arts while Congress is debating massive tax breaks for the wealthy.

54.   Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations committee voted to confirm the admiral.

55.   Many in the White House assume that the politically polarized committee will vote along party lines to approve at least one article of impeachment.

56.   No committee has voted on the bill.

57.   On another item of the anti-abortion-rights agenda, the committee voted to bar federal funding of experiments on human embryos.

58.   On the day the committee voted to install a legislature picked by China, Fung cast the solitary negative vote.

59.   Over the objections of one member, the committee voted not to give the discretion, according to the minutes.

60.   Reacting to complaints from high-tech companies of a worker shortage, a Senate committee Thursday voted to allow employers to hire more foreign workers for US jobs.