Such lopsided numbers made Mr. Obama a powerful president when it came to enacting his agenda.
Moreover, uncertainties remain because of political obstacles in Europe and Japan to enacting fundamental change.
The committee followed with a statement calling Republicans an obstacle to enacting the recommendations.
The culture of the modern Congress is hostile to compromise, but compromise is the only route to enacting big bills.
The Senate president, Richard J. Codey, said in a statement that Senate Democrats were committed to enacting legislation before July.
"We are fully committed to enacting the 0.7% commitment into law, in line with the coalition agreement".
If the Republicans were a party to these intense discussions, that would ease the path to enacting health care reform".
After a series of wild political twists and turns, that procedural emergency exit turned out to be essential to enacting the health care legislation after all.
We seem to be close to enacting one of the most important pieces of social-insurance legislation since the nineteen-sixties.
It would help if Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a supporter of the bill, would commit political capital to enacting the legislation before the session ends.
What the leaders neglect to say is that infighting within the government bureaucracy is one of the biggest obstacles to enacting stronger environmental policies.
