These benefits would come without requiring changes to current laws, while enhancing our sovereign interests.
He said the Lib Dems would not accept any changes to current spending plans.
Mr. Pozen specifically recommends changes to current law "that would improve the processing of patents, reduce lawsuits and speed up the arrival of innovations on the market".
Over the years, Mr. Pataki has begun to exert more constitutional power over the Legislature, inserting changes to current law into descriptions of appropriations, Democrats and Republicans say.
Changes to current laws which come into effect in April will give watchdogs more power to pursue serial cold-calling firms.
Every year, though, Congress reliably makes changes to current law — changes that increase the deficit — just in the nick of time.
Even without any changes to current law, the Congressional agency predicted that annual interest costs on the federal debt would almost double from $160 billion last year to $314 billion in 2012.
The budget office projected that if Congress and the Bush administration made no changes to current tax or spending policy, the $2 trillion federal budget would eke out a $5 billion surplus this year and $6 billion next year.
By next fall, the Regents expect to have proposed changes to current regulations circulated to schools and the public, with final changes in place by February, and enacted by local schools no later than September 2005.
Governor Pataki has used that ruling masterfully, putting changes to current law into the descriptions of appropriations, and placing the Legislature in the unhappy position of having to accept his policy changes to spend the money.
According to a CNN poll released on Wednesday, nearly 3 in 4 Americans want to make major changes to current health care bills, to abandon those bills and start over or to scrap all attempts at reform.
