The House overwhelmingly passed legislation early on Saturday intended to reduce the glut of junk e-mail messages, and the Senate is expected to quickly follow suit this week.

This important legislation intends to protect job growth by deterring harmful NLRB regulations.

In the last Congress, legislation intended to halt Internet gambling passed in the Senate and fell just short in the House.

That could induce them to accept legislation otherwise intended mostly to help large banks.

The Republicans' major message is that Mr. Mitchell's legislation intended to insure all Americans must lead to a bureaucratic "government takeover" of medicine.

Last November, Congress approved legislation intended to curb such practices by limiting the agency's discretion in awarding grants and threatening violators with civil penalties of up to $1 million.

In 2006 Gaffey supported legislation spearheaded by fellow Democrat Donald Williams intended to address childhood obesity in Connecticut.

This legislation intended to insert a provision in the Queensland Act, granting Indigenous titleholders a right to consent to this one regulation.

"But our experience," she said, "has been that the uses for which the P.F.C.'s are to be put have gone well beyond what the legislation intended."

It actually intends to interfere in affairs that are not crime-related and not criminal, but simply legislation a sovereign state intends to adopt in order to regulate internal social matters.