21.   On Tuesday, administration officials called the Republicans focus on the meeting part of a fishing expedition.

22.   Rutherford said revealing all of the donors would violate their First Amendment rights and prompt an unfair fishing expedition by investigators.

23.   She had said I was crazy to sign up for a fishing expedition on horseback in the wilds of Wyoming.

24.   The delay was intended to assuage Democratic fears that Republicans were going on an open-ended fishing expedition into Democratic fund-raising.

25.   The Democrats, crying foul, withdrew from the investigation and yanked out the FBI agents, calling the inquiry a fishing expedition.

26.   The Democrats accused the Republicans of trying to provoke a confrontation with the White House in an effort to perpetuate a political fishing expedition.

27.   The debate in the committee intensified after Cochran suggested that the subpoenas were a politically motivated fishing expedition intended to smear the White House.

28.   The questioner was on a fishing expedition.

29.   The subpoena served on Mr. Hubbell was the quintessential fishing expedition.