I learned a few new parliamentary tricks.

The vote, whether in the Senate or House, would be nonbinding, and the White House has dismissed it as a parliamentary trick.

"I am baffled that so many Democrats caved in to the parliamentary tricks of the Republican leadership," Mr. Wexler said.

A parliamentary trick, and useless here, but there was also nothing to be gained at this stage by moving.

Against Senate tradition, he used parliamentary tricks to make it impossible for any senator to amend the President's spending bill.

With Tom Daschle now the majority leader, it will be more difficult for opponents to kill the bill with parliamentary tricks.

In public comments Mr. Barak characterized the vote as a "parliamentary trick" and said it would not deter him from his goals.

They were both warriors, not glib, smooth, cunning courtiers with a thousand parliamentary tricks up their sleeves.

It was not some parliamentary trick that Bob Dole had up his sleeve.

All of these parliamentary tricks were in vain, however, as the gag rule resulted in each being summarily dismissed.