1.   Although House members have a right to attach amendments to unrelated bills, the practice should not be allowed to hobble or maim US foreign policy.

2.   As has been demonstrated repeatedly, mixing unrelated bills is a prescription for trouble.

3.   In his anti-pork crusade, McCain has targeted some health spending that was slipped into unrelated bills, including some for breast cancer facilities in New York.

4.   It is a Democratic-sponsored amendment to an unrelated bill that faces strong Republican opposition.

5.   Just last week, senators more sympathetic to the House approach tried to attach it to an unrelated bill.

6.   Republican leaders had hoped to force a vote on the issues by packaging them into an amendment to an unrelated bill governing retirement benefits for railroad workers.

7.   She was angered by Democratic efforts to bottle up a bill restricting teen abortion, and she fought back by killing dozens of unrelated bills on a technicality.

8.   Tacked onto an unrelated spending bill after limited debate, it was first vetoed but later signed by President Clinton.

9.   The amendment, which was advocated by recording companies, was inserted without debate into an unrelated bill in Congress last November.

10.   The bill was revived Thursday when Gov. Roy Barnes personally appeared before a Senate committee to add similar language to an unrelated bill.