Putting aside sweeping debates over the project's propriety and meaning, many ask a simpler question: Can Mr. Gamal pull it off?
Washington policy makers are hotly debating a sweeping overhaul of the nation's financial regulations, and the news could embolden those seeking to rein in the banks.
A sweeping financial overhaul being debated in the Senate would subject the credit rating agencies to comprehensive regulation and examination by the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first time.
The endorsements come as the Senate debates a sweeping overhaul of financial regulation aimed, among other things, at buffering the economy from the kind of systemic threats that companies like Lehman Brothers and the American International Group posed in 2008.
Florida, that inflamed big toe of American politics, is one of the worst offenders, even as the state debates a sweeping ethics reform bill that keeps in place a current law that prevents departing members from lobbying the legislature for a two-year "cooling off" period -- but postpones for two years a similar ban on doing business with the governor and state agencies.
It turns out that the most momentous act of Vladimir V. Putin's first days as Russia's elected president has not been his choice of a cabinet, or the internal debate over a sweeping economic restructuring plan, or even the approval of two nuclear arms treaties.
The issue should come to a head this week, as the Senate resumes its debate on a sweeping patients' bill of rights.
In a race against adjournment, the Senate opened debate today on a sweeping package of proposals aimed at choking off the supply of dangerous drugs and the demand for them.
City dwellers, on the other hand, have a little time to prepare for their most hotly debated new law, a sweeping ban on indoor smoking.
The Senate is starting a three-week debate on Tuesday on a sweeping law that has vast political importance for Republicans and Democrats alike.
After first proposing the rules last year, Department of Homeland Security officials said they held off finishing them to await the outcome of the debate in Congress over a sweeping immigration bill.
