1.   Also on the table is the role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in regulating the industry.

2.   Although the insurance industry is largely regulated by the states, its lobbying force in Washington is formidable.

3.   And if the FDA does regulate the industry, what would it mean?

4.   And he said the proposal for a new accounting regulatory board would not give it the proper independence or power to regulate the industry effectively.

5.   As a matter of international diplomacy, it is extraordinarily difficult to mandate how other nations treat their workers or regulate industry.

6.   At the same time, Congress was rewriting the laws regulating the industry.

7.   At the same time, the FDA is pressing for authority to regulate the industry and limit its ability to attract a new generation of customers.

8.   Baker said in a telephone interview Saturday that he did not feel the federal government was equipped to continue regulating financial industries given the pace of change in them.

9.   Because the industry is highly regulated, premiums charged by competing companies are identical.

10.   Both the study and the flurry of regulations it spawned have come under fire this year by Republicans in Congress, who say the banking industry is excessively regulated.