Among those lobbying and supporting the bill are people close to former President Bill Clinton.
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Among the Democratic presidential candidates, only Bill Richardson comes close to understanding the issue.
In practice, each of these sub-categories is comprised of specific products (such as private equity funds or intentionally defective trusts) and services (bill paying and close protection personnel, for example) based on the needs of the underlying families.
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, a Queens Democrat who has spent years championing a bill that would eliminate New York's statute of limitations, said she would be amending her bill, or write a supplementary bill, to close the mandatory reporting loopholes.
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The pay bill is worth a close look, as it accounts for about 60% of the revenue spend.
Short-term interest rates such as the overnight bank borrowing rate and one-month and one- year Treasury bill rates are already close to zero.
And he often talked of the 1964 concert in which organizers made the mistake of having the Rolling Stones, not him, close the bill.
But the government felt the bill already ensured a close enough relationship between local authorities and the police - because representatives of such authorities would sit on the proposed panels.
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The tax extenders bill is struggling and the Senate voted 56-40 Thursday night to close debate on the bill.
Still, all but one of the Hewlett-Packard directors with close ties to Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, including Perkins and Keyworth, are now gone.
Western officials say they are generally comfortable with the rise of Mr. Sharif, who maintained close ties with President Bill Clinton during his tenure.
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The health policy community has tried to tell itself that the AHRQ elimination vote was meaningless political theater, since there was no realistic chance the bill would be approved in anything close to its original form before the election.
Canada's Parliament is close to approving a government bill to protect boundary waters against bulk removals.
These days, she's keeping a close eye on the immigration bill as it evolves in Washington and monitoring amendments that could unravel it.
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Covert (1957), a plurality of justices agreed that the treaty power could not undermine the Bill of Rights, rightly trying to close the huge loophole that Missouri had erroneously opened.
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Of course there are some Democratic candidates in close races who are embracing the bill.
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Jobs had come with one of his software engineers, Bill Atkinson, and Atkinson moved in as close as he could, his nose almost touching the screen.
The new measure, called a reconciliation bill, also would take additional steps to close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage and to help low- and middle-income Americans purchase health insurance through new insurance exchanges.
As he returned from Baghdad this week, Mr Butler said that he was close to giving Iraq a clean bill of health on missiles and chemical weapons, but was still far from that point in the biological field.
Murphy was supposed to host the Oscars last year and it might have marked something of a comeback for the comedian but he backed out at close to the last minute giving Bill Crystal his 9th opportunity to host the show.
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But the government, in the form of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, is likely to resist any substantive amendments, because the terms of the bill have had to be worked out in close collaboration with the other Commonwealth countries who have the Queen as their head of state.
He's already eased some deadlines in the bill and rejects complaints that it's too close to the next election to make a change.
Unanimous Republican opposition so far means Senate Democrats need all 60 votes in their caucus to close debate on the sweeping health care bill.
But this week, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a new bill drafted by Bill Thomas, a Republican (and coincidentally a close ally of Mr Bush).
Morris described a close friendship between Stevens and a man named Bill Allen.
His union is opposed to the current version of the House bill, which gives the Postal Service wide leeway to close post office branches and make employee cuts to balance its budget.
Ministers say they are listening to these concerns, and backbench Labour MPs and activists say the whips have been shocked by how close some of the votes were as the Bill has progressed through the Commons.
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