Education: Vote to kill a Democratic amendment to an education bill.

Bankruptcy: Vote to kill an amendment to a bill to overhaul the nation's bankruptcy system.

Education: Vote to kill an amendment to a bill that would expand tax breaks for education savings accounts.

In 1983, he voted to kill an amendment that would have added $559 million to the bill's $13.5 billion for the Department of Education.

The Senate voted 67 to 33 against killing an amendment that would have attached the provision to a spending bill.

Taxes: Vote to kill an amendment that would strip a major provision from a Democratic tax plan - a $300 tax credit for children.

To kill such an amendment, Congress would have to vote it down by at least a two-thirds vote in its next session.

The compromise cleared the way for passage, but it also effectively killed an amendment that would have raised fuel efficiency standards much more aggressively.

They did the same thing when they killed a Democratic amendment on emergency room care.

Then it voted, 58 to 40, to kill a Democratic amendment to make the tax increase $1.50 over three years.