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Other aides said it's all but certain that lawmakers would drop another element of the Udall-Merkley package that would require a filibustering party to explain, on the floor of the Senate, the reason for their filibuster.

"A friend of my mother has paid the rent for this house for us," Christian explains, sitting on the floor of the family's bare living room.

Explaining his vote on the floor of the Senate, he warned, "We should not be seduced by the expectations of 'dancing in the streets' after Saddam's regime has fallen".

He explained, "When she stood on the floor of the United States Congress, promising, to thunderous applause, that Pakistan neither possessed nor intended to assemble a nuclear bomb — the very day after she had received a detailed briefing on the weapons program from the director of the C.I.A. — her worth was diminished in the eyes of the United States".

That soldier, whose name was entered into the record only as "chief warrant officer," explained how he had laid his gun on the floor of a room in a show of respect for the Afghans inside, as is customary in that country.

"Basically, what it's looking for is a break in routine," he explains, pointing to a drawing of an elderly woman, collapsed on the floor of her home.

Wherever the crust is thin enough--on the ocean floor and the floor of the Great Rift Valley--the carbonatite can push through to the surface more easily, he explains.

That could explain her accuracy on the floor.

"The secret to good wearable technology is to make it super, super simple," Mota's co-founder Kevin Faro explained to the Guardian on the show floor of the bustling IFA in Berlin.

Immediately after his gruelling expedition, Clare wrote the extraordinary Recollections of Journey from Essex, a fevered prose account of the trek, which, he explains, involved sleeping on the stone floor of a porch and eating handfuls of grass – which tasted "something like bread" – from the roadside.

Amin Ullah, sitting cross-legged on a carpet in a small room on the second floor of the market, explained why the money changers remain loyal to the Taliban.