The president urged lawmakers to pass a homeland security bill before the August recess.
So today's assault on the Justice and Security Bill is not just a headache for the government.
The ambitious, but long-delayed food security bill will now be debated by lawmakers in parliament before a vote.
Mrs Guigou's calculation that their demands would add euro1.2 billion to France's annual social-security bill leaves them unmoved.
The lobbyists' biggest coup has been the revision of the Homeland Security Bill.
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But the courts issue has alienated many members, worried the Justice and Security Bill will undermine the openness of justice.
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"I urge the United States Congress to stop talking and get an economic security bill to my desk, " Bush said.
But anger quickly became directed at the Suharto-era parliament, which passed a draconian security bill favored by the military on Thursday.
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Then the House comes to the day's main event - the report and third reading stages of the Justice and Security Bill.
Then peers deal with Commons amendments to the Justice and Security Bill.
They say in the absence of this basic information, the government has not made a case for the Justice and Security Bill.
The Senate version of an airlines security bill, prompted by the September 11 terrorist attacks, would make all U.S. airport security personnel federal employees.
But even this scaled-down proposal was heavily attacked in the Commons on 18 January 2010 at second reading of the Crime and Security Bill.
It is a confrontation, long brewing, over the Justice and Security Bill that will allow more civil courts to examine secret intelligence in private.
The genesis of the latest troubles go back to May, when the Defense Ministry, which Wiranto also heads, submitted a new security bill to parliament.
Then peers resume detailed scrutiny of the Justice and Security Bill.
The president and leaders on both sides of the aisle have been pressing for an airline security bill to reassure Americans that air travel is safe.
So extreme is his devotion to small government that he was one of just nine House members to vote against the airline-security bill in November 2001.
The irony is that many Lib Dem peers are far less concerned about the Communications Data bill than they are about the Justice and Security Bill.
Democrats today accused the Republicans of being obstructionist and not willing to negotiate one part of an airline security bill, whether airport screeners should be federal employees.
Given that disability benefits account for around a quarter of the total social-security bill, substantial savings would be possible from focusing disability benefits on genuinely disabled people.
The government has made some concessions to its original proposals under the Justice and Security Bill, including dropping plans to allow some inquests to take place in private.
Home Office minister Lord West of Spithead warned of "problems" with the European Court of Human Rights if the proposals in the Crime and Security Bill are rejected.
Responding to questions from the audience, Bush said the new airline security bill and federal financial aid to airlines would help tourism and related industries get back on their feet.
On Monday , the Commons meets at 2.30pm for Education questions - followed (assuming no ministerial statements or urgent questions) by the report stage of the Justice and Security Bill (see above).
The Lib Dem leadership has faced some internal criticism for supporting separate plans in the Justice and Security Bill to extend the use of so-called secret courts to hear sensitive intelligence material.
In a subsequent vote two weeks later, Members again voted on specific language in the Homeland Security bill that would have prevented any such transfer, but this time sixty Members changed their position.
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And it is a bit rich to claim that defence is your over-riding priority if you apparently let your fellow Republicans doctor the Homeland Security Bill for the benefit of a big drug firm.
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There is only the smallest chance that the security bill will become law - either during the waning days of the Clinton administration or the headstrong years of his successor, whoever that will be.
Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the government's plans to expand secret hearings under the justice and security bill, saying the measure would allow highly sensitive evidence to be presented that otherwise could not be heard in court.
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