1.   Critics maintain excessive regulation can stand in the way of business expansion and faster approval of life-saving drugs.

2.   The excessive regulations discredit the essential.

3.   These are the folks who elect politicians who produce excessive regulation.

4.   Excessive regulation may also be an effective barrier to entry, thus reducing competition and providing large profits for the incumbents.

5.   American judges have historically honored the election process as an elemental right, not to be trifled with, or burdened by excessive regulations.

6.   Another problem with excessive regulation is the way it encourages the favored or those seeking favor to try to co-opt powerful community members.

7.   Bush also outlined a stewardship philosophy in which local communities, free of excessive regulation, work to protect the environment.

8.   But analysts say the surge is being held back by excessive regulation, chronic high unemployment and reluctance to abandon outdated business practices.

9.   Congressional leaders insist they only want to end excessive regulations that hamstring honest businesses and that they will leave basic protections for public health and safety intact.

10.   Excessive regulation may have contributed to the problem, Shays said.