51.   Despite a short election-year calendar, congressional action has become likely.

52.   Earlier Thursday, Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, said congressional action was necessary.

53.   Dropping it would require congressional action.

54.   Either way, congressional action would be necessary almost as soon as members return from their Fourth of July recess.

55.   Final Congressional action would end a two-year dispute over vitamin labeling that has pitted the Food and Drug Administration against industry lobbyists.

56.   Final congressional action could easily not come before next year, and it would have to be quite different from the Senate bill before Clinton would sign it.

57.   Fears that military working dogs were being euthanized, rather than given new homes once they retired, prompted public outcry that spurred congressional action.

58.   GOP leaders have said congressional action on the tobacco pact is unlikely until next year.

59.   Governors said they hoped their new health policy would provide a similar blueprint for congressional action on Medicaid.

60.   He denied the removal plan was a public relations ploy or an effort to head off congressional action.