Still, the thought of reform has created consternation in the industry.
Ben Bernanke, when he testified recently before the Senate, said that he thought tax reform should be done in a comprehensive way, individual and corporate together.
And you thought getting health care reform passed was difficult.
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Frank Field, the minister for welfare reform, is thought to favour this.
The report will eventually go before a joint committee of both the Commons and Lords - though the government is thought unlikely to introduce further reform legislation before the next general election.
The moderate approach to reform adopted by Ak Zhol is thought to have become increasingly attractive to Kazakhstan's voters.
Contrary to what many thought when this process began, the health reform bills represent the biggest deficit reduction legislation since the 1997 Balanced Budget Act.
MPs, alarmed at the thought that many of them would lose their seats after electoral reform.
Based on post-election polling I did on issues, I presented to both sides what I thought was a consensus agenda, including a section on campaign finance reform.
He thought a referendum would be a choice between the status quo and modest reform of Britain's membership - an "in-in" rather than "in-out" choice.
Born into a good family at a bad time, the Gracchis tried to reform the Roman economy in 123, which they must have thought was in as bad shape as the U.S. in 2011.
An old but creaking system of consensus, the lingering loyalty of bosses and employees to an unaffordable social-welfare model, and a web of constitutional checks and balances designed to prevent even the most fleeting thought of another tyranny, have all made it extraordinarily hard to carry out reform in Germany.
They in turn shipped the boys to what they thought was a prep school in rural Kentucky but turned out to be a Baptist reform school.
"I thought what I would bring to it ... is an emphasis on election reform, and I could cite specific things that I had accomplished in that regard, " he says.
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