81.   So on Tuesday senators of every stripe ended up voting for the trade bill.

82.   Some of the controversial White House trade decisions have been squarely aimed at appeasing lawmakers whose support was essential for action on the trade bill.

83.   Some textile-state Republicans sharply criticized him last week, saying he had blindsided them with changes in a trade bill.

84.   So he hates trade bills?

85.   Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and the Senate majority leader, Trent Lott, personally intervened on Thursday night to resolve differences that had deadlocked the trade bill.

86.   Teamster leaders said labor should not reward Democrats who backed the trade bill even if the Republicans running in those districts are less friendly to labor.

87.   That came after Senate leaders resolved a campaign finance dispute that was threatening to hold up action on the so-called fast-track trade bill.

88.   Support for it as an amendment to the trade bill appeared to be eroding on Thursday.

89.   That left passage of the trade bill, which Clinton has called crucial for the nation, increasingly in the hands of Gingrich and the majority Republicans.

90.   That development came after Senate leaders resolved a campaign finance dispute that was threatening to hold up action on the so-called fast-track trade bill.