51.   All three lawmakers are Republicans.

52.   Breyer wrote that lawmakers were often irrational about relative risk, under-regulating in certain areas and over-regulating, at high cost, in others.

53.   Border state lawmakers are lined up behind an amendment by Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich., to exempt Canadians from the law.

54.   Both the economy and our democracy would suffer if lawmakers were to choke off the flows of information that have made this country wealthy and free, they argue.

55.   Bucklin and Republican lawmakers were more skeptical.

56.   Bullock, like Laney, said lawmakers are ready to go to work.

57.   But BioCore got the rest of the money after the lawmakers were involved with the company, prompting conflict-of-interest questions.

58.   But Democratic lawmakers have been much more cautious about deregulation.

59.   But Dr. John Duffy, a former director and outspoken Carville critic, said that for years Federal lawmakers were hesitant to take action.

60.   But conservative lawmakers are hesitant to create what they fear would be perceived as yet another entitlement program.