One possible approach would be to set up a commission which would make recommendations that Congress would vote to adopt or reject, withoutmakingchanges, he said.
In a joint statement in August 2006 Greenpeace, the WWF and Friends of the Earth said: "Carbon offsets should only be seen as a last resort" and that "purchasing offsets can be seen as an easy way out for governments, businesses and individuals to continue polluting withoutmakingchanges to the way they do business or their behavior".
The plan proposed by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to reform Medicare would have put that program on a path toward long-term solvency, withoutmaking any changes to the program for anyone over the age of 55.