11.   During the hearing, the commission took heat from taxpayer groups, state employee unions seeking raises of their own and the public at large.

12.   European Union Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert said the discrepancy violated EU competition rules and would have to be amended, or the commission will take legal action.

13.   EU rules allow the commission to take a government to the European Court of Justice for breaking agreements on state aid payments.

14.   He said the commission has not taken any action against Internet advertisers.

15.   He said that the commission took aim at him because of his long service to the Republicans.

16.   He said the commission had taken legal moves against a New Mexico man and an Illinois man to stop the interstate trade in Texas tickets.

17.   Hirsch said that the commission had taken its action extremely late, ignoring a previous series of huge truck bomb attacks abroad.

18.   Hundt said the commission took its action after five years of failed efforts to marshal support among other countries to revamp the Byzantine system of payments between phone companies.

19.   If those documents were not provided, he said, the commission could take the matter before the European Court of Justice.

20.   In a follow-up letter to McCain, he noted the maritime commission has taken action against Cosco twice on pricing matters in the past.