It has an array of provisions — many of them controversial — that are intended to expand care and lower costs.
The agreement includes a strong array of provisions known as lock-ups that are intended to deter competing bids.
The full scope of those goodies is fully discernible only by poring over the bill and its head-spinning array of provisions The single most expensive component of the package -- other than the continuation of all of the marginal rates -- is a two-year adjustment of the alternative minimum tax, to prevent it from hitting millions more households.
That offer, according to the district, contained a broad array of provisions beyond pay raises.
Even as Mr. Bush and Ms. Pelosi repeatedly prodded the Senate to act fast, Mr. Reid stood firm as the Senate plan's cost swelled to $204 billion with an array of new provisions.
Hours before Mr. Reid's announcement, Mr. Baucus, chairman of the Finance Committee, and Mr. Grassley, the senior Republican on the panel, had unveiled a broader, $85 billion agreement that also included an array of other provisions intended to generate support.
Lawmakers must also deal with an array of other provisions, including tax rates on dividends and capital gains, and the Alternative Minimum Tax, which has been adjusted annually to prevent millions of middle-class families from paying higher tax bills.
Rather than raising the gas tax, as many transportation advocates suggest, the Senate jury-rigged the bill with an array of revenue provisions, tapping a trust fund established to clean up leaking underground storage tanks and adjusting the way pension fund contributions and liabilities are calculated.
"Yet it stands in sharp contrast to the nearly $40 billion in SNAP cuts in the House-passed bill of September, which contained an array of draconian provisions and would have thrown 3.8 million people off SNAP in 2014".
These so-called "Christmas Tree" bills start out as say, a ban on local plastic bag regulations, and are then hung with an array of other provisions crafted to override local lawmaking.
