They get the benefit of the exemption from antitrust.
Then, last month, it abolished the exemption from employers' social-security contributions enjoyed by private but non-profit "community" universities.
These include the home-mortgage-interest deduction and the exemption from taxes on employer-provided health and retirement benefits.
Thanks to the exemption from Dodd-Frank, banks can charge merchants high fees when a consumer swipes a prepaid card.
Section 45DA provides the exemption from the so-called "secondary boycott provisions" if their actions are "substantially related to environmental or consumer protection".
They stay in the yeshivas for decades, enjoying the exemption from military service but forbidden to work and earn a wage.
Some of them, including the mortgage interest deduction and the exemption from taxes for employees' health benefits, are political sacred cows.
But after a disagreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the exemption from military service of ultra-Orthodox Israelis, it left the coalition.
And House Democrats said they would also insist on eliminating the exemption from federal antitrust law that health insurance companies have long enjoyed.
The government could also reverse the exemption from FOI that it made for Northern Rock, the failed bank it now owns.
Mr. Obama on Tuesday endorsed a bill that would eliminate the exemption from federal antitrust law that health insurance companies have long enjoyed.
