Because of the breadth of its support, the Tillman Act was the subject of almost no formal discussion.
The response of tanker drivers working for other companies, who have refused to cross Shell workers' picket lines this morning, is a demonstration of the breadth of support for the strike throughout the workforce.
There is one heartening aspect of this whole sorry tale, and that is the sheer breadth of support the campaign has gathered.
"I think we're clearly encouraged by the breadth and depth of the support, and it's telling of the support Eliot has," said Christine Anderson, a spokeswoman for the campaign.
Kevin Pringle recalls the polling he carried out for the SNP in the winter of 2014, which first alerted him to the unprecedented breadth of potential support for the party in the coming year's general election.
Without that breadth of support, the project might have foundered early on when the real cost of staging both the Olympics and Paralympics - £9.3bn, including a huge contingency fund of £2.7bn - became evident.
In a sign of the breadth of his support, Trump is ahead of the pack in deeply conservative Super Tuesday states such as Alabama, Georgia and Alaska, and Democratic-leaning states such as Minnesota.
What mattered to her was less the breadth of her support than the depth of her convictions.
[Page A15.] On Capitol Hill, Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the majority leader, who was conspicuously absent from a Rose Garden ceremony on Wednesday that was intended to show the breadth of bipartisan support for the compromise resolution, said he still thought, "there is a chance we can make additional improvements".
But the leaders said that the breadth of support for the measure expressed by other Republicans left them with little alternative but to allow it to come to a vote today.
