Despite the United Nations guarantee of the protection and preservation of Japanese sovereignty, some American congressmen insisted they should annex a war-defeated Japan.

The congressman insisted the witnesses against him were lying under government pressure or immunity agreements.

"Wait a minute," the congressman insisted.

But the congressman insists he will soon have the traction for a homestretch victory.

The catch is that once NASA (or a contractor) hires somebody, that somebody's congressman will always insist on that job being in the budget (and the longer it exists, the less likely he can find another job).

"The structure's sound, the investments need to continue," the congressman properly insists, emboldened to claim government's role has not been half bad.

When his advisers urged him to hold a golf tournament to raise money in his home state, the congressman insisted on a bowl-a-thon instead.

The congressman, William J. Jefferson, is the subject of a federal bribery investigation and has insisted he has done nothing wrong.