1.   For years, vintners lobbied regulators without success for permission to advertise therapeutic or curative effects of wine.

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

3.   Some critics are lobbying federal regulators to order it to permanently transfer some key lines around Houston to rivals.

4.   The for-profit organization is primarily a testing and information organization that also lobbies federal regulators for safer products.

5.   The national regulators were heavily lobbied by General Electric and Honeywell, and by their supporters in industry and politics.

6.   They said they will be in Washington Wednesday to lobby federal regulators to ease rules that would require divestment of TV stations and UPN.

7.   Why is General Electric still vigorously lobbying regulators about its planned acquisition of Honeywell International if the deal is really dead?

8.   Duncan also testified that Andersen employees lobbied regulators for broader powers to act both as auditor and adviser.