Tom Cole (R-Okla)., who chairs one of the House Appropriations subcommittees, told reporters on Wednesday that, based on his conversations with Mulvaney, he believed $25 billion would be the "ceiling" for any package.
Super-graphic signage, below, will wrap doors, floors, walls and ceilings "like a package," said Paula Scher, a partner at Pentagram in Manhattan, which designed it.
Some of the options still on the table to raise the debt ceiling, involving smaller packages of spending cuts, might not be sufficient to satisfy S.& P. or Moody's and Fitch, two other rating agencies that have expressed concern over the debt negotiations.
Among the measures targeting the demand side are co-payments (e.g. deductable and co-insurance payments and ceiling), limited benefit packages, etc, while those targeting supply side include the use of different provider payment methods, (e.g. capitation, DRG payment, capped global budget), regulation of drug and service prices, controlling the use of high-technologies, etc.
Three times this year — on the tax deal to resolve the fiscal cliff, on a measure to suspend the debt ceiling and on a package of Hurricane Sandy relief — he has let legislation pass the House against the votes of a majority of Republicans.
Three times this year – on the tax deal to resolve the fiscal cliff, on a measure to suspend the debt ceiling and on a package of Hurricane Sandy relief – he has let legislation pass the House against the votes of a majority of Republicans.
Photographs were handed round of rooms floor-to-ceiling with unopened packages ordered by the gullible (usually elderly) victims.The magazine publishers say that most advertising lives in a grey area between truth and lies, and that legislative standards should be designed for the normally sceptical, not the vulnerable.
The interior has granite countertops, wood floors, 20-foot-high exposed-beam ceilings and a $27,000 "furniture package" that includes, among other things, an overstuffed couch, beds and a painting of a field and trees.
In the end, it seems more likely that lawmakers will include a debt ceiling raise in the fiscal cliff package than sign off on wholesale changes over who gets the final say over how the debt ceiling is raised.
