Jodi Rudoren, who edited the article and inserted the language that offended Smith, said the sources were not really anonymous.
Mr. Gramm, in a recent interview, said he was not responsible for inserting the language into the bill that established the Enron Loophole.
Administration officials inserted the language in an apparent attempt to curb the growth in federal contracts that arose during previous freezes imposed under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
At the same time, Mr. Ryan was a co-sponsor last year, along with Mr. Akin and other House Republicans, of a bill that seemed intended to narrow the rape exception, inserting the language "forcible rape".
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) in March inserted the language into a government-wide spending bill, and NSF has suspended making any awards in the field while it tries to find a way to apply the new criteria to its existing peer review process.
America inserted the language to, effectively, make the the same legislation in the DMCA apply to all the agreement's signatories: Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and Canada.
It was unknown who inserted the language in the Senate measure, which must be reconciled with a House Interior spending bill that does not mention condemnation.
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va)., who chairs a House subcommittee that funds those agencies, inserted the language into an appropriations bill because of concerns about Chinese telecom equipment-makers Huawei and ZTE, his spokesman said.
Although neither Mr. Vlasto nor the Office of Mental Health explained why the clause was inserted, Mr. Wyssling said that the state had sought to insert the confidentiality language but that his client had no opinion about it.
Nelson's effort to insert the House language into the Senate legislation failed Tuesday, leaving him unable to support a bill that is increasingly to his liking in most other areas.
The Bush administration now argues those powers were inherently contained in the resolution adopted by Congress -- but at the time, the administration clearly felt they weren't or it wouldn't have tried to insert the additional language.
