They said their best hope was a fight to strike the Senate measures in the conference committee.

The Senate measure calls for similar demonstration projects in other states.

The Senate measure included only a 4.3-cents-a-gallon tax on gasoline, which would raise $22 billion over the five years.

For the most part, the airlines are throwing their support behind the Senate measure.

No progress is expected anytime soon, and few people believe that a final bill will go beyond the Senate measure.

The Senate measure would lower the limit to $350 billion.

The Senate measure would not allow tax cuts right away.

Provisions of the relevant Senate measure have not yet become public.

The bill is quite similar to a Senate measure passed tonight.

The Senate measure would not require them before 2002, if at all.