Give Bowdon some credit, however, for helping to set the stage for a year of reform, and a year of reform movies.
They have to become as comfortable talking about Medicare in the coming year as they did in talking about health-care reform last year.
While I am thrilled the budget assumes the passage of major health care reform this year, we still need to actually pass a health care reform bill for it to happen.
Officially, the White House is sticking with its original plan for comprehensive reform this year.
And that's why we've taken up the cause of health insurance reform this year.
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Camp would like Congress to address both individual and corporate reform this year.
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We made a down payment on that with health care reform last year.
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When we started our push for reform last year, I talked to a young mother in Wisconsin named Laura Klitzka.
And that's what we're going to do with immigration reform this year.
Planning large-scale reform next year may still be too ambitious: it is an election year, which makes politicians even more skittish about controversy.
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They have the power and moxie to get the imprimatur of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees on tax reform this year.
Lawmakers tinkered with pension reform last year, raising the retirement age to 67 for new employees, but Democrats don't see an urgent need to make more significant changes.
We have to break ground on immigration reform this year because, while we were elected for four-year terms, the sad reality is that we only get one good year.
Similarly, the Senate halted the liberal direction of President Clinton's health care reform last year and was moving toward the moderate middle when it ran out of steam and time.
President Barack Obama has urged Congress to pass immigration reform this year, and border security is critical to McCain and other Republicans who contend that some areas along the border are far from secure.
Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, worries that a symbolic or partisan feint at reform this year could fail and then simply make it impossible to muster the support that will be needed from both parties in 2011.
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It is an article of faith at the White House and among some congressional Republicans that while individual tax reform may be off the table this year, corporate reform remains a reachable goal.
This had already been worn down by rows over health reform earlier this year.
The government has set up a review of the system and is expected to publish plans for reform later this year.
Under a constitutional reform agreed last year, some powers are to be transferred from the presidency to a prime minister nominated by parliament.
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He passed student-loan reform earlier this year, and his health-care plan now lets people stay on their parents' health-care insurance until they are 26.
The adoption of the Dodd-Frank reform bill last year demonstrated that more needed to be done to keep the level regulation up-to-date to a rapidly evolving industry.
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With all the controversy, will patent reform happen this year?
The GOP bill would extend the tax cuts for all taxpayers -- including the wealthiest Americans -- and includes a requirement that Congress tackle comprehensive tax reform within a year.
This had been planned to follow the three-year reform programme but that was to be brought forward, and independent inspections would be piloted as quickly as possible once agreement had been reached on standards.
In Oaxaca, the state government hopes to pass legislation in the coming legislative term (ie, the next six months) to launch a five-year reform process leading to the formal installation of a new legal system.
The minister said the drive for reform began last year, after the death of toddler Kennedy McFarlane, a three-year-old from Dumfries who died in May 2000 after abuse by her stepfather Thomas Duncan, and other cases.
And while a special bipartisan congressional committee representing both the House and Senate (to be called the Gang of 12, I suppose) will have the authority to recommend tax reform later this year, there is no reason to believe it will do so.
Opponents claimed that he wanted to inflict a defeat on the judiciary ahead of a law reform later this year, and that he also hoped to cow the president as part of a broader strategy aimed at taking over the presidency himself and giving Italy what his admirers say would be a more decisive form of presidential government.
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