Senators also said they were beginning to realize that the vote, while nonbinding, would be an important statement on Congressional sentiment regarding the war.

But without House leaders' telling members how to vote, such measures can often be a useful barometer of Congressional sentiment.

A14 Senate Republican leaders forcefully rejected a growing Congressional sentiment to lend, rather than give, $20.3 billion to Iraq for its reconstruction.

But Mexican and American officials acknowledge that any accord will have to pass a test of Congressional sentiment on some issues not directly related to trade.

But nothing could be plainer than the lopsided votes to show where Congressional sentiment lies these days in the balance between personal freedoms and security exigencies.

The President's pledge to increase aid levels will be equally difficult to fulfill, given the tenor of Congressional sentiment.

But this tactical dancing will not stop the accelerating movement toward impeachment nor encourage Congressional sentiment for a negotiated censure resolution.

The pending vote to override the veto has also taken on significance as an expression of Congressional sentiment after recent Administration gestures toward Beijing.

But the subcommittee's deliberations are the first measure of Congressional sentiment.

"What makes us think that foreign entities would have a real sensitive sense of American public opinion or Congressional sentiment?"