In both chambers, this would mean enforcing budget timetables and rules.
And when his budget and timetable didn't allow him to film in person, he also turned to Twitter to find amateur filmmakers who could shoot and upload footage, sometimes within 24 hours.
But the city has only just started a multiyear deal to acquire a site that houses an oil depot, and has no budget or timetable to clean it up or to buy another major parcel already designated as parkland.
The Bloomberg administration, through Deputy Mayor Robert Lieber, has been involved with the committee working on that report, which will lay out a new budget and timetable for the reconstruction.
Neither the abiding questions of humanistic inquiry nor the winding path of scientific research that leads ultimately to innovation and discovery can be neatly fitted within a predictable budget and timetable.
Rather than call the corporate office for help in finding creative services for a Web site, for instance, a division leader will be able to log onto the Intranet, type in a query, and receive suggestions that are suited to his budget and timetable.
The proposal emerged at a hastily called meeting of a ground zero working group on Tuesday, only nine days before the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is to unveil a new, more realistic budget and timetable for rebuilding the trade center site with new streets, office towers, a cultural complex, stores and an eight-acre memorial and museum.
In an update on the company's internal investigation Thursday, Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch told reporters that engineers came up with the scheme in 2005, when they were unable to hit tough US standards for nitrogen oxide emissions within their allotted budget and timetable.
It did not specify new budgets or timetables.
