61.   If the president was serious, he added, he would take on the gun lobby and propose tough new gun laws.

62.   In the case of the crime bill, the special interest, of course, was the gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association.

63.   In the past, Clinton has made political hay by attacking the gun lobby and the Republicans as extremists.

64.   In the United States, democracy is defined the other way around by the gun lobby.

65.   In these parts, it may be riskier to trash the gun lobby than it is to point out its power over politicians.

66.   Instead of exposing Clinton misdeeds, the GOP questioners exposed themselves as partisan, uninformed and in bed with unpleasant conspiracy cranks and the gun lobby.

67.   It also was considered a strong sign that the gun lobby continues to hold sway with Republican leaders in Washington.

68.   It also shows frustration over the inability to overcome the powerful gun lobby in Washington.

69.   It just goes to show what the gun lobby says is true.

70.   It will be an uphill fight to persuade the Republican Congress to buck the gun lobby and its generous contributions to GOP campaigns.