Following complaints last summer from Beijing that the legislation had not been enacted, the Hong Kong administration drafted laws setting long jail terms for sedition, secession or treason.
"The cost and proposed clandestine method of collecting information from physician offices are questionable," said a letter to the administration drafted Monday by Senator Mark Steven Kirk, Republican of Illinois.
The U. S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied against the rules as the administration drafted them after President Obama's decision to lift sanctions last July.
But he also worked to burnish his client's image in the West and helped Mr. Yanukovych's administration draft a report defending its prosecution of his chief rival, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, in 2012.
The accounting office is investigating how the administration drafted its energy plan and has demanded the names of business executives and lobbyists who visited the White House to express their views.
Western diplomats here and American officials who work on Colombia policy, though, say the United States has not only offered support for Mr. Uribe but also has been consulted as his administration drafted the legislation.
The administration drafted the new rule after hearing complaints from scores of hospitals and doctors who said the old standards were onerous and confusing, exposed them to suits and fines and encouraged people to seek free care in emergency rooms.
"According to an administration draft proposal being circulated in Congress by the U.S. trade representative's office," the Journal reported last week, "the U.S. would keep some of Nafta's most controversial provisions, including an arbitration panel that lets investors in the three nations circumvent local courts to resolve civil claims.
Working toward that goal, the administration drafted the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, which, among other things, created a National Recovery Administration to help business leaders draw up and enforce codes governing prices, wages, and other matters (coded industries would be exempt from the antitrust laws).
Consider the cases of Susan E. Rice and Victoria Nuland, two high-ranking diplomats whose internal roles were put on display when the White House released e-mails this month documenting how the administration drafted its official talking points about the attacks, which killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
