Does that mean he would be open to structural changes to Social Security and Medicare, which is what McConnell and Boehner have both said have to be on the table?

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Administration officials acknowledge that if Bush proposes some kind of new amnesty for Mexican workers, he will be open to considering similar changes for other immigrant groups.

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Barack Obama of Illinois has said he would be open to meeting with leaders of nations unfriendly to the United States, like Iran, to bring about positive changes overseas.

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Deputy children's minister Gwenda Thomas said the changes would allow agencies to be "open, honest and transparent" when things go wrong.

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Glyn Davies, Conservative AM for Mid and West Wales, called for the council to be more open with the public about the report and changes being made.

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He told MPs the government had made changes so no school which stayed open would be penalised if individual students could not make it to school on that day.

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And while we have 14 National Parks, some attitudes toward them are suggesting changes, basic changes in some quarters whereby some portion of the New Zealand public now apparently believes they should be open to mining and evaluated strictly according to various byzantine economic criteria.

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