1.   At a dinner Wednesday night, Gingrich had promised to work to end racial preferences.

2.   At a dinner Wednesday night, House Speaker Newt Gingrich had promised to work to end racial preferences.

3.   Black and Hispanic enrollment plummeted when the University of California and the University of Texas ended admission preferences.

4.   Clinton has reacted cautiously to steps taken by California and Texas to end affirmative action preferences for minorities and women.

5.   Connerly, of Sacramento, started it all in January when he called for ending racial preferences in admissions, hiring and contracting.

6.   Gov. Pete Wilson has issued executive orders banning the use of affirmative action in contracts and hiring and pushed the University of California to end such preferences in admissions.

7.   He has issued an executive order ending the preference that unionized companies had in many federally financed building projects.

8.   It is even more remarkable at a time when states like California, Texas and Washington have ended hiring preferences in public higher education.

9.   It would end the preferences in state and local government hiring and contracting and in school admissions.

10.   Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Rep. Charles T. Canady, R-Fla., are leading the effort to end racial preferences altogether.