This Con Ed mentality is on display in other tax-increase ideas the Administration wants to enact.
Second, the Bush administration has its own ideas about FHA reform.
But the new American administration may have different ideas, especially if its Balkan policy is dominated by officials who made their names there in the Clinton years.
He has listened to ideas from the private sector to -- from economists inside and outside the administration and considered a vast array of ideas.
Regardless of whether the Obama administration addresses the war of ideas or not, the conflict will not go away.
And there may be other targeted ideas that the administration works through between now and even the beginning of the year.
Although the Bush Administration has professed opposition to such ideas, it has done nothing to discourage them.
Your administration has ruled out the various ideas that have been out there -- the 14th Amendment.
Small business owners, business leaders, policy experts, workers and labor leaders are joining with senior administration officials today to share their ideas and strategies for making the workplace more flexible for American workers and families.
As well as helping big companies become more focused and efficient, McKinsey has ample experience in public-private partnerships, and in working with social innovators in the non-profit sector (who are likely to be a crucial source of bright ideas for the new administration).
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The administration sticks to voter-friendly centrist ideas, but seems hopelessly demoralised.
In another example of innovation this summer, the Veterans Administration hosted an innovation contest to solicit ideas from frontline workers for reducing the backlog of disability claims.
One of many bad ideas emerging as the Bush administration aligns itself ever more closely with the regime of Mikhail Gorbachev is the proposition that the United States should help the Soviet central authorities convert some of their military-industrial complex to civilian uses.
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Back then, the Bush administration was trying to run away from such ideas.
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Forget the sneers from Georgetown: the rive droite will provide many of the administration's people and most of its ideas.
One of the stranger ideas floating around is that the Administration should deal with the refusal to raise the debt limit by minting a trillion dollar platinum coin.
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Mr. Enthoven's ideas won some support in the Carter administration.
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The senior Bush administration official said the White House is "open to ideas from Congress to accelerate funds they've already appropriated" to help the auto industry.
Congress is unlikely to act before the fall on any of them, but administration officials say these represent the president's best ideas for helping the economy.
But he said the US administration had "only just begun to engage with the ideas that are coming from Gordon Brown, let alone agree to them".
That's the thing with a new administration: Cabinet positions haven't been filled and policy ideas haven't been committed to legislation.
As for the story that you reference, obviously there are a lot of ideas that get bandied about, both within the administration and outside.
Emanuel spoke with Topol and Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on a panel about personalized medicine at the Aspen Ideas Festival this month.
Because we know that the best ideas for tribal nations come from within, my Administration has continued to engage tribal leaders in developing an agenda that respects their expertise on matters affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives.
The Obama administration and congressional leaders are both jawboning the matter at present, with mixed ideas on whether the rhetoric is good or bad.
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There is a tradition to the format that has led to -- a tradition to the format that has almost always included both a broad vision and some specific ideas about where we can take the country, things that an administration can do working with Congress or working without Congress, to advance policy objectives.
To an administration that believes the answer to every problem is lower taxes, the appeal of these ideas is obvious.
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Bush said his administration has made progress, but said Congress must approve the necessary resources to fully implement his ideas.
On education, the Bloomberg administration was among the nation's forerunners in changing the culture of public schools and testing new ideas to raise test scores and student achievement in the mayor's first two terms with then-Chancellor Joel Klein.
He had very, very clear ideas about what he wanted to do but was very unsuccessful in convincing the rest of the administration to do them.
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