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She said that she had gotten the idea after noticing the way mutual fund companies entertained their regulators at a convention of the state commissioners who help to regulate the securities markets.

But some questioned the idea of reducing the enforcement power of state regulators at a time when investor confidence still wobbles.

The bureaucratic turf wars have grown intense, with Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, reportedly berating regulators at a meeting last month.

Administration officials, confirming an account first disclosed in The Wall Street Journal, said Mr. Geithner upbraided top regulators at a Treasury meeting for airing their views.

Senators from both parties urged regulators at a hearing Thursday to offer more detailed criteria for designating such firms, which will be subject to stricter regulation.

Beijing is joining the club of influential regulators at a time when antitrust agencies are increasingly focusing on patent and patent rights.

By helping to reveal private information and focus regulators' at-tention, a limited liability tax could accelerate the pace at which poli-cymakers learn, and therefore, the pace at which regulations improve.

PacifiCorp's return on equity is capped by various state regulators at an average rate of 11.5%—but that is far above the 6.5% the utility actually earned in 1999.

"I am not thinking this is going to be a slam dunk with regulators at all," said Michael Nathanson, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein & Company.

But the agency suffers from "mission confusion," as a former regulator at a rival agency told me.

"Large passenger cars and minivans are the safest way to move around large numbers of people," said Dr. Jeffrey W. Runge, the Bush administration's top auto safety regulator, at a conference in January.