But Congress has already missed the deadline for such reforms to take effect in the next election, though it may be extended.

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And that, as many officials acknowledge privately, means that the original Doha deadline of finishing the round by January 2005 is, in effect, defunct.

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And the fact is we have been talking about this and answering question, and making clear that the planning was in effect in the lead-up to the potential deadline at the end of last year.

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The decree should have come into effect at the end of January but on January 21st the government put back the deadline to July 31st.

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Adopt the 2009 or 2010 rules for 2011 (with perhaps the imposition of rookie scale contracts which both sides have agreed to in principle), set a hard deadline of August 1 to have a new collective bargaining agreement signed, and put it into effect as of March 1, 2012.

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The most immediate issue facing President Obama and lawmakers here in Washington is a year-end deadline that will require some big decisions on jobs, taxes and deficits -- and have a real effect on families all over the country.

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