Sales between family members would be exempt, and the bill would also have provisions to require more redress for veterans with mental illnesses who are denied firearms, a notion that compelled Mr. Coburn to nearly hold up the completion of a recent bill to finance the Department of Defense in pursuit of such a measure.
There is no set timetable for the completion of a committee bill.
At the same time, the Senate Judiciary Committee is nearing completion of a compromise bill that, like Sensenbrenner's, would change the way drug offenders are sentenced and provide a pathway to early release for those already in prison.
In 2009, a nation of undocumented immigrants watched Barack Obama add a bold timetable to the completion of a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill to be delivered from Congress to his desk and that he would be ready to sign.
The House has approved a bill authorizing repeal, pending completion of a Pentagon review, and the Senate tried to do the same in September only to be blocked by the threat of a Republican-led filibuster.
Mr. Jeffords's decision this week to leave the Republican Party following completion of the tax bill gives Democrats control of the Senate starting next month, when Congress returns from its Memorial Day recess.
The bill would allow pharmacists to immunize people 18 years and older after certifying completion of a federally approved course, which is now a routine part of pharmacists' education.
But an obscure provision of the defense appropriations bill forbids the Pentagon from revising its insurance sales rules until 90 days after the completion of a Government Accountability Office study that senior House members requested in March.
Two thousand-twelve is nothing but the completion of a cycle".
This follows the completion of a successful pilot phase.
