Then the Republicans tried to link unrelated legislation to the temporary spending bills.

Otherwise, he said he would look for opportunities this week to attach the measure to unrelated legislation to force it to the floor.

Senator Paul Sarbanes attached an amendment to unrelated legislation to achieve this.

The Economist has written that these provisions were "hastily tacked onto the end of unrelated legislation".

But they have said they are willing to vote on the measure without attaching it to unrelated legislation.

He made the announcement roughly 100 feet from where about a dozen exotic dancers were protesting some unrelated legislation on the State House steps.

Congress members insert deliberately obscure provisions into unrelated legislation to provide money for favored educational institutions.

The antitrust plan, he said, would be proposed as an amendment to unrelated legislation this year.

Q: Congress also grafted substantial revisions in immigration law onto several pieces of unrelated legislation.

But the full Senate never took action as that session of Congress expired in a flurry of unrelated legislation.