"Any legislator who doesn't support this bill has to be in league with the insurance lobby."

But to do so, they have to defeat the securities and insurance lobbies.

But the insurance lobby swiftly regrouped, and has been able to prevent the savings banks from competing for affluent customers.

Would health care plans, good or bad, have passed if it weren't for the insurance lobby and the H.M.O.'s?

The House has already passed a strong bill, but the insurance lobby continues to oppose it.

And the lesson many people took from that defeat is that any future health care proposal must buy off the insurance lobby.

Frustration over the insurance lobby has burst forth on Capitol Hill.

What is more, few lobbying groups in this town are more influential with members of Congress than the real estate and insurance lobbies.

The insurance lobby has begun its media blitz by engaging in a round of lawyer-bashing.

The insurance lobby's warning that allowing lawsuits would send health costs soaring simply has not materialized.