Members of Congress, led by Senator Christopher Dodd, have proposed compromise legislation recommending just that.
However, the Republicans in Congress, led by House speaker Newt Gingrich, often pursued policies in an uncompromising and confrontational manner.
Some members of Congress, led by those from salmon-rich Alaska, are promoting legislation that would prohibit or delay approval.
Anti-abortion groups and several members of Congress, led by Senator Tim Hutchinson, Republican of Arkansas, have proposed such restrictions.
For 70 years, a Congress led by the governing party rubber-stamped the all-powerful presidents' proposals.
Members of Congress led by Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, continue to press the company for better numbers on the size of the spill.
Mr. Clinton's small initiatives came as a relief to voters exhausted by the aggressive conservatism of a Republican Congress led by Newt Gingrich, then the House speaker.
Throughout the 1850s, efforts to push homesteading legislation through Congress, led by Johnson and Pennsylvania Representative Galusha Grow, were unrelenting — and unrelentingly defeated.
On the surface, the blunder was failing to square the retail deal with a coalition ally, the Trinamul Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, a notoriously unreliable ally.
But Congress, led by Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, both Republicans, quickly passed laws that put impossible conditions on their release.
