21.   Each thinks it has lost ground and accuses the other of expanding its power.

22.   --Expanding the power to use electronic surveillance against suspected terrorists.

23.   Federal agents would have expanded powers to search credit records.

24.   From a base in Mecca, the Hussein clan expanded its power to what would eventually be Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

25.   He is currently a sponsor of a measure that would expand the power of criminal investigators to wiretap phones, a measure civil libertarians strenuously oppose.

26.   In doing so, the bill would expand the power of banks to sell securities and insurance products.

27.   In that case, he said, the person who is the subject of a bill of attainder might decide not to allow Congress to expand its powers.

28.   In the past, banks have successfully lobbied federal regulators for new regulations that significantly expanded their powers.

29.   It accused the majority of producing an incoherent opinion that improperly expanded judicial powers.

30.   It would expand the powers of the Commission on Judicial Performance to discipline judges for misconduct, and would involve nonjudges in those proceedings and make them more public.