21.   It is often easier for regulated industries to sue regulatory agencies in court than to seek regulatory relief in Congress.

22.   Merrill Lynch is in a very highly regulated industry.

23.   Oil and construction companies, both highly regulated industries facing tougher international competition, are falling behind.

24.   On top of all that, US fund companies breaking into Japan face a highly regulated industry unwelcoming to foreigners.

25.   Other regulated industries, like airlines or pharmaceuticals, have for years lured government officials into their camps.

26.   Project XL, for example, makes almost no use of cost-benefit analysis or compensation for the regulated industry, two prominent Republican features.

27.   So the tobacco industry is now a regulated industry.

28.   Some lawmakers have said privately that a system that relies on federal assistance for state regulated industry was eerily reminiscent of the savings and loan bailout a decade ago.

29.   The bill builds in elaborate petition rights by which regulated industries can force review of existing regulations.

30.   The airlines, in a lawsuit brought by the Air Transport Association, contend that local jurisdictions have no authority enacting mandates on the federally regulated industry.