The Hobson choices were enacted only when, in the Omnibus bill, neither the 108th Congress nor the President had the opportunity to address them individually.
The bill, dubbed omnibus bill by Greek daily Ekathimerini, has already passed the economic affairs committee, and is up for vote at midnight in Greece.
One other option, although nobody wants it, is for Congress to attach a health care bill to an omnibus budget reconciliation bill just like they did with COBRA. If that's the only way it could get to the President's desk, would he sign that as well?
Even more ironic, he attached the legislation to an omnibus spending bill that spent taxpayer funds on countless earmarks, special interests and rent seekers.
He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the omnibus spending bill, which it inherited from the previous administration.
U.S. technology transfer policies vis-a-vis the PRC have been substantially liberalized in recent years both through executive action and in accordance with the requirements of the omnibus trade bill.
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Tucked into the giant 1, 200-page omnibus spending bill passed by Congress Thursday night is a provision that prevents the government from spending any money to enforce the light bulb ban.
Suffice it to say that there is a great deal of interaction between the White House, the administration and members of Congress, relevant members, as we enter this end-phase and as we grapple with the remaining issues: payroll tax cut extension, unemployment insurance extension and the omnibus spending bill.
It is no small irony that, at the same moment these Horatii are being castigated for opposing haste-makes-waste legislating, Capitol Hill is in tumult over language contained in another bill - the omnibus appropriations act - that could only have been adopted under similar circumstances.
This gigantic bill known as an omnibus, would have been hundreds of pages long and studded with earmarks - those specially funded projects that lawmakers slip into such bills to please constituents and contributors.
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