81.   Essentially, the securities firms are exploiting federal tax laws aimed at preventing local governments from earning too much interest on the proceeds of tax-exempt bonds they have sold.

82.   --Extension of a five-year moratorium on royalties paid to the government from deep-water oil drilling.

83.   Federal land conservation programs are paid for by royalties collected by the government from offshore leases for oil and gas drilling.

84.   Federal ethics laws bar officials leaving the government from a variety of contacts with former colleagues.

85.   Federal law prohibits local governments from denying applications by wireless service providers to build towers.

86.   Federal law prohibits the government from prosecuting most crimes, other than capital offenses, that happened more than five years before a person is indicted.

87.   Fear of fomenting unrest often prevents the government from immediately raising prices.

88.   Federal law at the time barred the U.S. government from supplying arms to the Contras.

89.   Federal law prohibits the government from getting customer information without a subpoena or court order, which the investigator did not have.

90.   For example, the restaurant association has lobbied to block the government from taxing airline frequent-flier miles.