Perhaps the most telling thing about the current bill is what investment firms are telling their clients.
Under the current bill, most of the tax cuts will expire in 2010.
Where we crave sweeping transformation, however, all the current bill offers is those pilot programs, a battery of small-scale experiments.
Mr. McCain's spokesman declined to discuss Senate talks on the current bill.
Bush said he opposes the current bill because it would cause many families to drop private insurance and instead choose to cover their children under SCHIP.
During the passage of the current bill, the Tory opposition inserted a clause setting up an appointments commission for life peers and stipulating how it should operate.
Mr. Thompson also expressed his support for an inspector general for the police department, but said he didn't support the current bill making its way through City Council.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said it was his party's position to extend civil partnerships to everybody, irrespective of their sexuality but the current bill could not be derailed.
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While the funding in the current bill is less than the Obama administration asked for, Vilsack vows that his department will do everything it can to help schools do the best with what money they are given.
The current bill forestalls this until 2015.
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Corker, a member of the Banking Committee who had been negotiating with Dodd on behalf of the Republicans, said in a statement Thursday, The current bill would remove swap desks from commercial banks, lowering the amount of capital available for actual lending.
"We remain opposed to the current bill, and we continue to meet several times a day to decide how we're going to proceed and what amendments we will be offering as Blue Dogs on the committees, " said Rep. Mike Ross, D-Arkansas.
The draft legislation, introduced on Wednesday, will be included in the current Finance Bill.
Along the way, you reduce your current tax bill and give yourself a powerful estate-planning instrument.
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That way you'll prolong the tax deferral in your iras and reduce your current tax bill.
These dollars can be put in a pretax 401(k), cutting your current tax bill.
These attitudes may affect the political support for the current SCHIP bill and the crucial question of who should qualify.
The passage of the current Planning Bill must ensure that this is the last airport which has to endure such an absurdly protracted planning process.
Lack of oversight on the USDA's part is yet another reason that the current Farm Bill proposals need to be scrubbed hard for excess spending, critics say.
Funding for the current farm bill, adopted in 2002, runs out Sept. 30, and one of Congress' main tasks this year is to pass new farm legislation.
It is also possible that a new offer on devolved powers to Scotland may surface, superseding the current Scotland Bill, which has been in limbo for rather a long time.
Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most people's premiums and brings down our deficit by up to a trillion dollars over the next two decades -- brings down our deficit.
The legal changes necessary to bring in the new tax charge on child benefit - a policy announced by the coalition in 2010 and confirmed in this year's Budget - are contained in the current Finance Bill which is currently being considered by Parliament.
Current legislation prevented Bill Bratton, former head of New York police, applying to take charge of the Metropolitan Police in 2011.
Switching cards is particularly popular in Europe, where people "walk in, buy a SIM, and keep on adding minutes to it, " notes Current Analysis analyst Bill Ho.
Also Thursday, 36 moderate House Democrats threatened to vote against the current health care bill the chamber's leaders are drafting because they don't believe it will sufficiently reduce long-term health care costs.
Looking more broadly, the government says there are further measures it has taken to protect society, one of these being the current Civil Contingency Bill which is designed to beef up how we protect society in times of national emergency.
The biggest difference between the old days with Bill and the current situation is most easily described by this scenario: Bill: Two smart people are tasked with solving a hard problem in an innovative and interesting way.
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"However, we do have concerns with the current version of the bill, particularly the provisions which mean that a couple legally married in England or Wales will have their relationship only recognised as a civil partnership in Northern Ireland, " he said.
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