21.   Some influential lawmakers are sympathetic.

22.   The amendment, approved on an overwhelming voice vote, infuriated influential lawmakers from Florida, Texas and the other states with unlimited exemptions.

23.   The latest roadblock facing Klein was thrown up by an influential Democratic lawmaker, South Carolina Sen. Ernest Hollings.

24.   An influential lawmaker concurred.

25.   An influential lawmaker who accused Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda of India of clearing a controversial power project was expelled from the party Friday, a news report said.

26.   C.M. Ibrahim, civil aviation and tourism minister, an influential Muslim lawmaker of southern state of Karnataka.

27.   Earlier, an influential lawmaker from the governing Labor Party said Pinochet needed to be brought to justice.

28.   Earlier this month, Koichi Kato, a former influential lawmaker in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, resigned from Parliament over alleged misuse of political donations.

29.   Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind condemned the hijacking and several influential British lawmakers demanded that the hijackers be returned to Sudan.

30.   Grachev appeared before the lower house, the Duma, where a number of influential lawmakers have said they are ready to demand his ouster.