Why is there not a bill that he's traveling around the country saying, pass this now?
"If it doesn't have a public option, it's not a bill, " Burris says.
This is not a bill for press regulation as Hacked Off or anyone else would wish it: It is a bill to underpin voluntary press self-regulation in the way Lord Justice Leveson wanted it.
This includes the bizarre mailings you get from your health plan that say "this is not a bill" and you just throw them away, not to mention all the unnecessary telephone calls and faxes your doctors and hospitals need to make to get paid.
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, signed a letter saying they would not support a bill that does not include at least a partially refundable child tax credit -- something conservatives, including Thomas, opposed.
And so when I hear people just saying, oh, we don't need to do anything, this is a spending bill, not a stimulus bill -- without acknowledging that by definition, part of any stimulus package would include spending -- that's the point -- then what I get a sense of is that there's some ideological blockage there that needs to be cleared up.
However, Obama said earlier Friday in an interview with Spanish-language television network Univision that he would not sign a bill that does not include the pathway to citizenship.
The House is controlled by the GOP and most GOP lawmakers have signaled that they will not support a bill which does not extend the cuts across the board.
If a safe deposit box owner does not receive a bill or chooses to ignore it, in time, an auction house will be called in to review the contents.
Another terrible mistake was not passing a bill that would have mandated total regulation of the subprime mortgage industry.
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Several top Democrats have previously expressed concern that the traditionally conservative Senate would not pass a bill with a public option.
Second, he would, as I said the other day, not sign a bill that extends the Bush-era tax cuts for the top 2 percent.
Thus last year, when Mr Clinton was looking for fast-track votes, congressional Democrats insisted that they could not support a bill denying fast-track treatment to labour and environment clauses.
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We're not with him, last time around, and essentially scuttled negotiations between the House and Senate so that there could not be a bill of any kind in the last Congress.
But Prime Minister David Cameron said he did not believe a bill was necessary to set up the new regime and, instead, the Conservatives say a royal charter is the right way to provide legal backing for any new press regulator.
We are nine days away from the expiration of federal transportation funding, which guarantees jobs for almost a million construction workers because Congress has not passed a transportation bill.
Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who championed the Americans with Disabilities Act, sent a letter to the governor urging him not to sign a bill that didn't make more cabs accessible to wheelchair users.
For example, more than a dozen states use federal food stamp subsidies to give a dollar home heating credit for people who do not have a utility bill.
"Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not, and a way that Bill Clinton did not, " Obama argued at the start of last year's Democratic primaries.
Schumer acknowledged on Sunday that the lawmakers themselves had not settled on a final deal and said the senators have not yet finished writing a bill to address the 11 million illegal immigrants already in the United States.
Just because the House leadership forged ahead in crafting a bill before the Senate did does not mean it is a good bill or that it will get through.
The House of Representatives, which leans further left than the Senate, has been adamant that it would not pass any health-reform bill that did not include a public plan, while the only bill that seemed likely to emerge from the Senate was one that pointedly excluded this feature.
For the second year in a row this bureaucracy may not receive a clean financial bill of health from government auditors.
Why not announce a draft bill in the Queen's Speech, set up a scrutiny committee and debate and consult at length, they ask.
The House proposal has at least passed the first hurdle, approval by its financial-services committee, but the Senate's is not even a draft bill yet.
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But Mr Howard was not successful with a bill that would have allowed the government to sell its remaining two-thirds of Telstra, Australia's main telecoms company.
But they also may not want a strong bill that would overly benefit the Democrats, and neither may some Democrats who would hate to lose their fund-raising advantage in the financial sector.
Chief executive Richard Burge said the outbreak was a "crisis" for rural Britain yet ministers had refused to free up time "reserved merely for debate on a bill which will not help a single rural family and which would, if enacted, inflict yet another assault on their communities".
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