The goal now, supporters said, is to build backing in key areas to prompt Republican lawmakers to pressure him to relent.

In 1991 and 1993, budget problems relating to Ballot Measure 5 of 1990 prompted lawmakers to suspend the kicker, withholding $246 million from taxpayers.

Still, Tuesday's decision may prompt lawmakers in some states to give the matter a fresh look.

And the narrow escape has prompted lawmakers here to press efforts to pass laws regulating fate-tempting sports, which often involve inexperienced participants.

But the end of the cold war has prompted lawmakers to question the size and the pace of many weapons programs.

But it was that type of criticism that prompted lawmakers in New Jersey to withdraw their bill just before the final vote.

The paper's report last week prompted lawmakers to threaten to subpoena phone company executives.

The difficulty also prompted lawmakers to adopt the quadrennial commission system in 1967.

But the decision also prompted Republican and Democratic lawmakers to question what appears to be an open-ended American military presence there.

The attack has prompted local and state lawmakers to consider legislation that would stiffen penalties for attacking the operator or a passenger on a bus.