The rebellious Republicans said that when Mr. Dole's resolution comes to the floor, they want a vote on their own resolution, which would disapprove of the deployment but still support the troops.

The spending freeze was necessary to placate 11 rebellious Republicans who voted against the original measure because it would have increased committee spending at a time when Republicans have promised to balance the budget.

"This shouldn't come as any surprise when you want to hire more Washington bureaucrats rather than getting us to a balanced budget," said one rebellious Republican, Representative Mark W. Neumann of Wisconsin.

And Michael Forbes, the rebellious Republican from Long Island's East End, warns against underestimating McCarthy's intellect and natural political skills.

Many of the 11 rebellious conservative Republicans said that over the past month they had won promises to freeze some legislative spending and to refocus their leaders' efforts to cut taxes, balance the budget and overhaul entitlement programs.

There may or may not be enough rebellious Republicans to stop impeachment on the House floor this week.

The rebellious Republicans said their leaders' efforts to pressure them on Thursday night backfired.

Speaker Boehner had to add ideological candy coating to his bill to get rebellious rank-and-file Republicans on board.

They spent much of that time wrestling with about 10 rebellious but "undecided" Republicans, pleading and pressuring one after another to vote for the agreement.

Mr. Bush is still angry at the rebellious Republicans for not being "team players," a crucial concept to the sports-minded President.