1.  But that law was repealed as part of a legislative effort to boost voter registration and participation.

2.  That legislative effort is clearly impermissible under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

3.  And the vote could pave the way for ballot initiatives or legislative efforts in states where politicians have balked at authorizing concealed weapons.

4.  Any threat against atrazine -- widely used and cheap for farmers to apply -- also may fuel legislative efforts to soften the limits on its presence in drinking water.

5.  Babbitt deplored recent legislative efforts to boost federal logging of damaged timber and forest stands in Washington and Oregon where threatened marbled murrelets have been seen.

6.  Birmingham said, however, that his bill should not be seen as a retreat from legislative efforts to make Masschusetts a more business-friendly place.

7.  A legislative effort to put a similar question on the ballot died in the General Assembly earlier this year without coming to a vote.

8.  A similar legislative effort backed by Bush this year died in an end-of- session filibuster masterminded by state Sen. Jerry Patterson, R-Pasadena.

9.  A White House spokesman said the legislative efforts by gun-control lawmakers mirror some proposals embraced by President Clinton.

10.  But Clinton had often strayed from that theme in his mostly futile legislative efforts to woo the handful of GOP votes he needed to pass his programs.