The Senate has to produce a bill, and I've made clear, if they produce a bill, we will review it and take it from there.
The Senate is expected to clear a sweeping housing bill Saturday and send it to the president for his signature.
Others note that Mr Bush's speech also repeated his support for un-green measures such as his Clear Skies Initiative, a bill to regulate emissions from power plants that excludes carbon dioxide (the principal greenhouse gas responsible for global warming), and his energy bill, which strongly boosts coal and nuclear power and proposes opening up protected areas of Alaska to oil-drilling.
He said a "clear and codified" bill would allow the European Court of Human Rights to apply a "margin of appreciation" in its rulings - where judges are obliged to take into account the cultural, historic and philosophical differences between Strasbourg and the nation in question.
While measures supporting a national RPS have cleared the Senate before, it is doubtful whether such a bill would clear the House.
"I have been absolutely clear that I would never introduce a bill that encroaches or threatens religious freedoms, " she told MPs.
Democrats who supported the bill hold a clear majority in the House.
But even Mr. Bloomberg, in his statement, made clear he believes the new bill is a significant improvement.
It seems possible that the Democrats' control of Congress could clear the way for a true immigration reform bill.
Although it is not clear what a House version of the farm bill will look like, direct payments will certainly go.
Bill Gates adopts a clear head posture, most probably because he is a very smart man who spends a lot of time thinking.
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An amendment to the bill will "provide a clear right of objection for family members, where they can confirm that a potential donor would not have wished donation to take place", Mr Drakeford said.
But Europe Minister David Lidington insisted that the so-called sovereignty clause in the bill was necessary to provide a clear statement about the status of EU law in future legal cases.
Nonetheless, the news might prompt new legislation aimed at the pharmaceutical industry, though it is not clear at this point what form, if any, a bill might take.
Finally, the REAL ID bill would make it clear that members of a terrorist organization or group that "endorses or espouses terrorist activity" are inadmissible to the United States.
Granted George Miller (D-Calif.) took up the cause and in 2007 introduced a bill whose basic premise was to make clear to employees and employers on quarterly statements how much money employees were paying in 401(k) fees.
So in signing this bill today, I intend to send a clear message: That making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.
These members of Congress made clear that if House leadership would only bring up the bill for a vote it would pass the House and be sent to the president to become law.
And I made clear from day one that I would not sign a health insurance reform bill if it raised the deficit by one dime -- and neither the House, nor the Senate bill does.
The bill would make it explicitly clear that it is not a violation of copyright law to alter somebody's work without permission, as long as it's for private use only and these altered copies of the work are not redistributed in anyway.
He said the "current obesity epidemic in children and adults represents a clear example of market failure" with taxpayers having to pick up the bill for healthcare and other costs.
While no one has said out loud that the president would veto a bill that calls for government negotiation, officials have made it pretty clear that's the likely outcome.
Many MPs want a new Parliamentary Privilege Bill to sort these issues out - to draw clear lines in the sand between the courts and Parliament and set out what the rules should be for the media, too.
It is far from clear whether Mr Reid can muster the 60-vote supermajority he needs simply to bring such a bill to the Senate floor, let alone to pass it.
At a High Court hearing in December, the club were given until 9 February to clear their tax bill.
The bill's fine print makes it clear who the winners and losers will be if a version of Waxman-Markey becomes law.
Another problem is the prospect that the present bill may clear the way for patents to be issued for inventions of human organisms - a moral and ethical concern of the first order.
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President Barack Obama included a provision recognizing gay partnerships in his own immigration bill, but he has made it clear in recent comments that the Senate measure meets his criteria for an immigration overhaul, even without the provision.
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