The Clinton administration, enjoying a booming economy, wants a more limited agenda, especially on the verge of an election year when there is no point in antagonizing voting constituencies.

Only after those elections, when negotiating partners are in place representing a voting constituency, would negotiations begin.

As one Senate aide put it, "The only people who care about this are the think-tank folks and the academics - not much of a voting constituency."

No senator or House member should be allowed to accept contributions except from the voting constituency that he or she serves.

They had to considering Labour had rigged the voting constituencies in their favour.

With 94 of 150 voting constituencies reporting, Mr. Mwanawasa had almost 734,000 votes, or about 40 percent of the 1.8 million ballots counted.

Stiffs don't rate high as a voting constituency with the county supes at budget fune.

Those polls told him that America's forests, mountains, streams and oceans have a vast voting constituency that cuts across party and ideological lines.

The community organizations build a voting constituency, and in so doing define a neighborhood.

"I think Jackson has invaded the American voting constituency like no other candidate, and color hasn't meant a thing."