Mrs. Morella, who is receiving substantial help in her campaign from the Republican Party, sought to turn the tables on Mr. Van Hollen in one commercial, noting his support for a legislative plan to cut income taxes.
He said he had told the vice president that, despite the caviling of many Republican members of Congress, there was no point in passing a legislative plan unless it was better for the party than the court's proposed boundaries.
Mr. Feinblatt, a top aide to Mr. Bloomberg, said Mr. Biden promised both a "legislative plan that could be achieved and a plan for executive actions".
Spanning nearly nine hours and drawing more than 100 speakers, council members could not reach a consensus on the best legislative plan for a resolution.
As expected, the newly elected U.K. Conservative government has confirmed its intention to push for broader powers to capture online communications, announcing a forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill in its legislative plan for the five-year Parliament, revealed today in the Queen's speech.
But it may instead be the spur for a looser approach to the notion of collective cabinet responsibility.Behind the scenes, policy advisers and senior politicians from both sides of the coalition are beginning to plan a legislative programme for the second half of this parliament.
Nor, frankly, was this speech a useful guide to the administration's legislative plans for the coming year.
These two events—one, amid the regal pomp, setting out the government's legislative plans for the next 18 months, the other soberly initiating a daunting fiscal squeeze were telling.
The Queen's Speech, in which the government puts forward its legislative plans for the next legislative session, placed an emphasis on toughening immigration laws.
Senate Democratic aides were openly making legislative plans for later this week, to press Democratic proposals after the fiscal deadline is breached — and after the next Congress is sworn in on Thursday with more Democrats in both the House and the Senate.
