When MPs disagree with proposed government bills, they can bid to change them by tabling amendments.
The sticking-point for government bills has long been the Senate, which is evenly balanced.
"The government bills go in the right direction, but not far enough, " said CDU backbencher Michael Meistr.
Three-month interbank rates were more than 1.4 percentage points higher than government bills of the same maturity this week.
Government bills should also go through a "public reading stage" as they progress through Parliament, giving voters greater scrutiny, he said.
Ad-hoc alliances of MPs sometimes form behind individual backbenchers' amendments to government bills, but such bids to change the law are usually unsuccessful.
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It's likely the government bills will now be rejected by the Bundesrat, meaning Mr Schroeder would have to reach a compromise with the opposition.
The efforts of Santiago Creel, the interior minister, to mollify them fearing that they would oppose government bills more stubbornly made the government look more divided than it really was.
All Germany's Land barons have big leverage thanks to their seats in the Bundesrat, the second chamber of the Bonn parliament, which can veto some government bills and delay others.
They had found a way to tack votes on a new press regulator onto other government bills setting up, for example, a National Crime Agency or a new law on defamation.
Most government bills introduced and passed in the Lords pass through the Commons without difficulty, but a bill from the Lords which proved unacceptable to the Commons would not become law.
He also warned that treating the bill as a money bill could set a precedent for preventing the Lords, where the government does not have an overall majority, from debating and amending other controversial government bills.
The Liberal Democrats also say they will not accept the "Salisbury Doctrine" - the Convention ensures that major government bills mentioned in an election manifesto can get through when the government of the day has no majority in the Lords.
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Another thing people are doing right now is putting money into government Treasury Bills, basically lending it to the government.
The Democrats vowed to try again, and the farm aid issue will be one of dozens fiercely debated as Congress acts on the various government appropriations bills - meaning the meat of the budget - when it returns in September.
Typically, it has been Japanese households that have footed the government's bills, investing via the government-owned post office.
The tax system is already far too reliant on the wealthy to pay the government's bills.
Individual health care accounts for routine stuff, government pays the bills for any chronic or catastrophic care needed.
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And one of the jobs that Congress has is to make sure that the United States government pays its bills.
They have said they won't pass a bill letting the government pay its bills unless I accept their extreme and misguided budget priorities.
Congress is engaged in brinkmanship over whether it will increase the limit, and allow the government to pay bills it has already incurred.
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That is the heart of socialized medicine in Europe- government sets the prices and government pays the bills (for the most part, not 100%).
That could change this summer when the Treasury Department bumps up against the debt ceiling, potentially running out of money to pay the government's bills.
In the report, auditors said they found instances in which the Afghan government presented tax bills to contractors who held tax exemption certificates issued by the Afghan ministry of finance.
The Scottish government said five bills announced in the Queen's Speech were likely to need legislative consent motions, which allow the UK government to lesiglate in areas of devolved responsibility.
Costa Rica's government has sent bills to congress that would tax money earned abroad, levy the sales tax on services as well as goods, and introduce a single form for income tax.
To caricature: if the world loves American Treasury bills but the funds would be more useful elsewhere, then the government should issue the bills, and use the proceeds to channel the funds where they are needed.
There just isn't enough to do that and pay all of the government's other bills.
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