Instead, he and his Congressional allies made a very different choice.

In fact, the candidates' situation is similar to that of their Congressional allies.

People are unhappy enough with the performance of the Bush administration and its Congressional allies these days.

Aside from industry lobbyists and their Congressional allies, there is little public support for the right to sell contaminated food.

The president and his Congressional allies have been at cross-purposes before, but it has never reached the level of the port confrontation.

Now they, and their powerful Congressional allies, would just as soon leave things as they are.

But for the Bush administration and its Congressional allies, privatization isn't a way to deliver better government services - it's an end in itself.

Administration officials and their Congressional allies said they now might be less than 10 votes shy of the 218 needed for passage in the House.

The administration and its Congressional allies regularly permit lobbyists to write the regulations by which they themselves are to be regulated.

And there are many other cases of apparent abuse of power by the administration and its Congressional allies.