But the alternatives the Democrats are attempting to push through Congress are an incoherent mish-mash.
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"It feels like I'm having to push through something to get to the sound, " she said.
This has cast further doubts over the government's ability to push through politically tough reforms.
They won't be able to push through the huge premium hikes they did last year.
What you did instead was to push through a plan without a single Republican vote.
Bellinger didn't name any of the other "treaty packages" that the administration wants to push through.
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None has been bold enough to push through liberalising structural reforms to raise growth and productivity.
He said his determination to push through the 90 day detention proposal was "absolutely undiminished".
The biggest risk is that Mr Yanagisawa may not be around to push through his reforms.
The legislature is sitting on nearly 300 bills, all chiefly designed to push through reforms.
Thyssen says 8, 000 jobs will go which would have been difficult to push through in normal circumstances.
Stolypin dealt ruthlessly with political protesters to push through reforms to make Russia a leading European power.
Comcast presumably believes that cables and content to push through them are worth more together than separately.
They use fiat, willpower and a supportive press to push through a project from launch to completion.
Barring a huge backlash, each tricky decision tends to make the next slightly easier to push through.
Some demonstrators threw stones and bottles, and tried to push through a police cordon outside the parliament.
And the private sector may find it hard to push through another tough round of pay restraint.
Still, the new system should make it a bit easier for Ms Merkel to push through legislation.
This is why Mr Sarkozy's pension reform, which he wants to push through by the autumn, is critical.
Opposition politicians are tired of the government's failure, over the years, to push through any reforms of substance.
After all, the government is struggling to push through even the investment increase it has already committed to.
The tax-favored plans will make it all the easier for higher education to push through backbreaking tuition hikes.
But Joorabchian was confident last week that he had a sound legal footing to push through the transfer.
In early August 2005 the then-prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, called a snap election to push through postal privatisation.
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On Sunday, he appealed to parties to push through further reforms of Italy's labour market and its institutions.
Mr Mahuad has also demonstrated an ability to strike the political deals necessary to push through economic reform.
But what better way for a government to push through controversial legislation quickly than to harness their emotive properties?
Thatcher's case, its purpose was to push through a program she thought would make life better in her country.
Lula defied public-sector workers to push through a further trimming of their pensions.
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Iowa Democrats plan to push through a minimum-wage hike that Republicans had stymied.
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