David Cameron's comments come as politicians at Stormont prepareto consider the Welfare Reform Bill which would deliver major changes tothe benefits system.
So Mr Connerly is helping toprepare a congressional bill that will do for the federal government what Proposition 209 did for California: ban state and local government from discriminating on the basis of membership of a group.
At the Pentagon, the Army has warned program managers toprepare for a possible money crunch if Bush vetoes an emergency war spending bill that calls for the eventual withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq.
There has been criticism of the length of time that women have been given toprepare for the raising of their state pension age in the pensions bill, which is currently before parliament.
But the minister countered that social care had never been free, arguing that people were unlikely toprepare themselves for future care costs if they "assume the state will pick up thebill".
President Bill Clinton outlined the environmental policy view last October, and asked Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman topreparethe specific proposal -- which was to be released later Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix.