51.   The Senate also defeated on procedural votes a pair of amendments offered by Democrat John Rockefeller of West Virginia.

52.   The Senate on Thursday failed on a procedural vote to consider legislation to repeal the gasoline tax and raise the minimum wage.

53.   The Senate supported the proposal last week on a procedural vote but has yet to consider the bill.

54.   The procedural vote indicated the strength of support in the Senate, which will take a final vote in the next few days.

55.   The Senate only had procedural votes this week.

56.   The Senate was prepared to heed the warnings by sidetracking the resolution through a procedural vote, angering several war veterans in the chamber who are pushing the measure.

57.   The Senate action, a procedural vote, comes a day after the latest in-flight scare in which a man broke into the cockpit of an American Airlines flight.

58.   The Senate had all but buried the bill for the year in a series of procedural votes last February.

59.   The senators never voted on the actual legislation, but two procedural votes indicated that they did not have the votes to move the bill forward.

60.   The speaker of the House lost on a procedural vote, the first time that had happened to Dennis Hastert.