Mr. Gensler also circulated a plan to commissioners this week that would phase in the cross-border requirements over time.
In 2002, Ernest Christian, a Republican tax lawyer, circulated a plan to create a flat tax in what he termed "five easy pieces".
A1 France, offering an alternative to the United States' drive to disarm Iraq by force, circulated a plan to Security Council nations for extending and strengthening United Nations weapons inspections.
And details remained vague today because the agency's staff members were still scrambling to figure out how it would work and had not yet circulated a plan for commissioners to examine.
Last July, for example, the Clinton administration began circulating a plan for an extensive software system monitoring government computers, and possibly those of private industry, to protect data networks from intruders.
It has begun circulating a plan by Richard Nash Gould Architects showing a railroad concourse on the Eighth Avenue side, an auditorium and conference center on the Ninth Avenue side and a ticketing hall between them equal in volume to the concourse at Grand Central Terminal.
A representative for Gov. George E. Pataki said that the governor would not present a plan at the hearing, although last week United States representatives and Congressional aides said that an aide to the governor had circulated a plan that featured two fewer Democratic seats.
Lawrence J. Korb, an assistant defense secretary in the Reagan administration who is now with the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization, is circulating a plan to withdraw 80,000 troops from Iraq next year, with most of the rest leaving by the end of 2007.
And Mr. Martin has been circulating a plan that would use the finding on cable television dominance to set a cap on the size of the nation's largest cable companies so that no company could control more than 30percentt of the market.
Praise for Duncan also came from the Broad Foundation, which has circulated a plan to enroll half the students from L.A. Unified in charters over the next eight years.
