61.   This means that if three Republicans vote for the Democratic amendment, it would pass.

62.   Throughout the day, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee voted down Democratic amendments that sought to water down the legislation.

63.   Two Democratic amendments that passed Wednesday would increase funding for libraries and after-school programs.

64.   White House officials said Wednesday that Clinton would sign the bill only if it were modified by either of two Democratic amendments.

65.   With a number of Republicans poised to abandon him and vote for the Democratic amendment, Lott agreed to the extra language.

66.   But ironically, in his first vote as an independent, he opposed a Democratic amendment to the education bill the Senate has been debating for the past month.

67.   By Wednesday, Dole was thanking Clinton for his efforts in discouraging Democratic amendments to the bill.

68.   Chafee, Jeffords and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., voted for the Democratic amendment, while Miller was the only Democrat to oppose it.

69.   DeLay assailed a Democratic amendment that would have stiffened penalties for harming a pregnant woman but not made harming a fetus a separate crime.

70.   Democratic amendments are aimed at siphoning money from the tax cut to schools and other programs.