In emotional debates, many lawmakers have pushed instead for old-fashioned eye-for-an-eye justice.

In Congress, lawmakers are pushing ahead with bills intended to curb violence on television.

Originally, the plan called for building the prison in Salem, but lawmakers and politicians there successfully pushed to build it elsewhere.

So a company pays lawmakers (sorry, campaign contributions) to push another country to adopt a law.

Then, after the collapse of Enron, lawmakers again pushed for the information.

Coal-state lawmakers are pushing for a wide array of government assistance to jump-start the industry.

Some lawmakers had pushed for hearings into any intelligence lapses to be held last year.

Some lawmakers had initially pushed for a bill that would have increased that figure by almost $100 billion.

In 1997, lawmakers again pushed for a patients' bill of rights.

Federal agencies now maintain about a dozen separate terrorist watch lists, and lawmakers have been pushing the Bush administration for months to combine them.