Miliband gave the TV debates proposals the most positive reception among the party leaders, saying they were "a good basis for moving forward".
As Congress debates proposals to overhaul our immigration laws, it should also take up the issue of immigration benefits for same-sex couples, to provide clarity given the legal uncertainty around this matter.
Explaining his decision to reject the broadcasters' debates proposals, Mr Cameron said that rather than ducking scrutiny, he wanted to "unblock the logjam" the "broadcasters helped to create".
The Securities and Exchange Commission extended to Sept. 15 the period for public comment on a hotly debated proposal to centralize the Nasdaq stock market's display of customer orders.
A1 Mr. Bush derided Vice President Al Gore for rejecting his debate proposal during a Labor Day campaign swing through two hotly contested states, Illinois and Michigan.
At that time, Mr. Bush was veering downward in the polls and drawing harsh publicity for pressing a debate proposal that seemed more favorable to him than the three prime-time debates planned by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.
Asked about the Gore campaign's reaction to Mr. Bush's debate proposal, Karen P. Hughes, his director of communications, said, "We'll be there and we'll see if Al Gore will keep his word".
At a recent school board meeting, district residents packed a middle school auditorium to hear the most hotly debated proposal on the table: to lay off 35 teachers at the end of the school year.
But so far, the Bush administration has shown little interest in the panel's most hotly debated proposal, to create an intelligence chief to oversee a large number of intelligence agencies that now report to different cabinet officials.
"All of a sudden, the words about 'anytime, anywhere' don't mean anything," Mr. Bush said, calling Mr. Gore's rejection of his debate proposal "an interesting example of kind of the Washington doublespeak".
