The House speaker's reasoning was that the passage of Plan B and the spending bill would put the onus on Obama and Senate Democrats to accept them or offer a compromise.
In his State of the Union address in 1948, an election year, Truman urged passage of his plan, which enjoyed widespread popular support.
Valentin Vogt, president of the Swiss Employers Association, said his organization regretted passage of the plan but added that its members would work to formulate methods for implementing its provisions.
Mr. Cuomo cast the deal as the capstone on a year of victories that included the legalization of same-sex marriage and the passage of a plan to raise tax revenue from high-income New Yorkers while lowering taxes on the middle class.
Even immediate passage of the Bush plan would not solve all their problems straight away, because it would take time to put the plan into place.
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Salter also said McCain called Bush and talked to colleagues in Washington and learned that passage of the bailout plan as it then stood was next to impossible.
McConnell on Monday dismissed the idea that Republicans are trying to block passage of the economic stimulus plan.
Anastasiades and the parliament reacted with further delays on the vote to approve the plan, making its passage less and less likely with each passing hour.
President Bill Clinton plans to meet with economic and political advisors this afternoon to discuss a revised administration plan to push for House passage of legislation granting the president fast-track authority to negotiate free trade deals.
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Richard Nixon had a grand plan for healthcare reform that was on the cusp of passage, and then unfortunately Watergate occurred.
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President Reagan commissioned his Treasury to quietly put together a tax reform plan behind closed doors during the 1984 election year and then he pushed it to passage in 1986.
But Sandor Levin, the Michigan Democrat who had originally proposed such a watchdog commission, said the plan could swing another 20 Democrats over to supporting the trade deal, enough to ensure its passage through Congress.
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