Although the budget office has assumed spending on the program of $5.7 billion a year from 2014 to 2019, Senate Democratic aides say the cost is likely to be much higher -- more like the $10.7 billion projected for 2010.
Karl Rove, the Sun Tzu (or, if one prefers, the Beelzebubba) of the White House, the man who, it is generally assumed, spends his happiest moments anticipating George Bush versus Howard Dean next November one source of intrigue has been how Rove might spin Dean's support for the civil-unions bill.
Equally important, she also argued that the government should assume spending on health and social care would rise to between 11 and 12 per cent of GDP by 2025 - a level of expenditure already met by other equivalent countries for health alone.
But those forecasts assume spending restraint that Congress is not showing.There is not even any guarantee that the Republicans will end up with an amicable settlement with the president this year.
If you take the official figures but assume spending rises in line with nominal GDP growth rather than just inflation, then the deficit rises by $1.6 trillion, once interest costs are included.
I assumed she spent her mornings reclining on a chaise longue, leafing through style magazines.
As a producer, dealing with almost constant rejection, I'd assumed commissioners spent every day musing over irresistible proposals and choosing between them.
During the summer, tourists flock to Greek islands to party, and the artist initially assumed the spent glow sticks were part of the aftermath of a beach rave.
In the United States, industry planners had once assumed that spent fuel rods would be moved to the Yucca Mountain Repository in Nevada.
Someone who reads Hemingway is not assumed to spend their weekends fishing or fighting bulls.
