My dad's a United Refromed Church minister, and I grew up in a house full of books and ideas.
The Conservative AM added: "Mid Wales is suffering from a general wage packet downsizing which inevitably means a knock-on loss of spending power from the local economy and an end to any ideas of owning a house for many more local people".
The irony is that Obama arrives at the threshold of the White House steeped in ideas that subordinate individual freedom to the collective.
Representative Spencer Bachus urged investors and market players to submit ideas to the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee before September 7, saying that the rule as currently proposed would have a "devastating" impact on the U.S. economy.
And now might be a time for infusion of new ideas and new faces within the leadership of the House on the Democratic side.
And tomorrow, I look forward to a good exchange of ideas at the Blair House with some of the legislative leaders.
Democrats in the House and the Senate have been in discussions over the last several weeks to finalize a package that represents the best ideas of both the House and the Senate.
And the Royal Opera, as the next episode of The House tells us, needs new ideas, perhaps even more than money.
We are tremendously hopeful, which is why the President posted ideas of his on the White House Web site today.
What is special about Afghanistan is that Mr Obama rejected both of the big ideas his subordinates promoted in the great hand-wringing review the White House conducted in the autumn of 2009.
Within its core functions, such as: laboratory of ideas, standard-setter, clearing house, capacity builder andcatalyst for international cooperation, UNESCO is playing crucial role in ensuring access to quality education for all in Member States.
At a small meeting in Des Moines, I listened to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich come up with some intriguing ideas, such as cutting medical fraud by using the same systems as credit card companies.
"None of those ideas have ever gone anywhere in the House or Senate, " said a House Republican staff aide to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Although outside groups had suggested the idea of such a caucus to House Members who care about these ideas, it took the three conservative Republicans Garrett, Lamborn, and McCotter to make it happen.
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Yet as chairman of the House Budget Committee Mr Ryan has backed his big ideas with detailed plans for reducing spending, involving cuts or radical reforms in such sensitive areas as Medicare (see article).
Although outside groups had suggested the idea of such a caucus to House Members who care about these ideas, it took the three conservative Republicans -- Garrett, Lamborn, and McCotter -- to make it happen.
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That is exactly what happened recently when the news broke that the White House -- working with Senate Republicans -- was suggesting ideas of its own for how to reform the immigration system.
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The budget then requires congressional leaders in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate to put forward their best ideas as well.
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Republicans are remarkably unified behind these economic and jobs growth ideas, with House Republicans having already long supported or even passed several components of that plan.
The sliding house is two years old now but I mention it because it appears in the Book of Ideas, from Dezeen, a magazine I featured in a post yesterday.
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Do you have any indication that some of these ideas will get bipartisan support, like are people in the White House consulting with people on the Hill about some of these specific proposals and have gotten some indication that they would be accepted?
Officials said that a number of these ideas pre-dated Kerry, but were turned down by the White House previously.
You saw different ideas in the House, there are some different ideas in the Senate, different ideas on the other side of the aisle.
It is now up to all the senators, and hopefully all the members of the House, to explain to their constituencies why they would be opposed to common-sense ideas that historically have been supported by Democrats and Republicans in the past.
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Perhaps Obama should use this moment as an opportunity to be bold and to return to some of the fundamental ideas for reform that he raised in embarking on his journey to the White House.
It was on the table, rather -- put on the table by the Speaker of the House, and acknowledged -- it was certainly acknowledged by the nearly 20 Republican senators who endorsed the ideas behind the Gang of Six.
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