But safety and battery experts are still questioning whether regulators can approve a permanent fix even when the cause of the fire remains unknown.
The new taxes in the budget agreement are set to last for two years but could be extended another two years if voters approve a permanent state spending cap in a referendum on May 19.
After receiving approval for temporary rate increases, starting in October, to cover sharply rising wholesale natural gas prices, the Public Service Electric and Gas Company is asking the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to approve a permanent increase of 7percentt for its 1.6 million customers in central and northern New Jersey.
Ms. Merkel, who seems so strong when seen from abroad, has been weakened in recent months, struggling to get her Parliament to vote by the necessary three-fifths majority to approve a permanent bailout fund, known as the European Stability Mechanism, even when it is packaged with a fiscal discipline treaty she has pushed.
On Monday, the Legislature approved a more permanent solution: the purchase of the Kronos system, a payroll and human-resources system used in 4,000 health-care facilities around the country.
China hopes next month to be approved as a permanent observer on the Arctic Council, an eight-nation body that seeks to co-ordinate policy in the far north.
In just a few days, a highly democratic movement where every decision is approved by a permanent general assembly, with no self-proclaimed or even elected leader or even spokesperson, has embarked on inventing a different society.
But according to a second draft of an American and British resolution for the United Nations Security Council on Iraqi sovereignty, circulated among Council members on Tuesday night, the United States security mandate would extend to December 2005, after a constitution had been approved and a permanent government put in place.
An American man in Florida and his husband, who is from Bulgaria, have become the first same-sex married couple to be approved for a permanent resident visa, an immigration milestone that comes after the Supreme Court struck down a federal law against same-sex marriage.
In 2016, the Israeli government approved a plan to construct a permanent egalitarian section that would be overseen by progressive Jewish leaders.
