But in general, he said, incomplete disclosures can open loopholes for makers of drugs and devices.
Representative Richard Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, and Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader, say they would favor repealing regulations that open loopholes.
But activists fear that exemptions for certain countries could open loopholes to be exploited in future talks.
In their petition they argued that Judges Thorson and Roy overlooked key facts and set bad legal precedent that would open loopholes in Colorado's malpractice law, relieving doctors of responsibility to patients whose viable fetuses are at risk.
Congress creates some wide-open loophole, and then the IRS is aghast that people take advantage of it.
Other pressures have come in the Buy America provisions in the stimulus package bill where there is now, thanks to the president having listened to some of us, the requirement that World Trade Organization consistency be observed, leaving nonetheless a wide-open loophole for protectionism that can, and will, break out in ways which the president has not faced up to.
Last week a four-vote majority of the six-member election commission violated their responsibilities by deliberately opening loopholes in several of the law's major provisions.
This language opens loopholes, she said, that could enable conservative judges to restrict "women's rights, freedom of religion, freedom of opinion and the press and the rights of the child," particularly young girls.
The 1997 American legislation to ratify and implement the treaty contained exemptions that opened loopholes for other nations to refuse both so-called challenge inspections (made at sites where cheating is suspected), and extensive analysis of samples.
Indeed, officials say, the six questions about assets affect aid to only 3percentt of Pell grant recipients, while penalizing families saving for college and opening loopholes for sophisticated applicants to game the system.
While Mr. Bush's 2002 memo does not condone torture, it opens loopholes in the treatment of prisoners that the military could drive a Hummer through -- and some clearly did.
