Only a year ago, Mr. Obama acceded to Republican demands for an extension of all of President George W. Bush's tax cuts, including those for wealthy Americans.
In those talks, Ms. Pelosi dropped Democrats' demands for an extension in unemployment benefits and an increase in food stamps, two strategies that economists rate highly for providing a quick stimulative effect, and instead agreed to a plan centered on the tax rebates favored by House Republicans and the Bush administration.
At the White House, administration officials outlined a list of their demands for an extension of expiring tax breaks, including the $800-per-couple "Making Work Pay" tax credit for about 110 million households, a tuition tax credit for 8 million college students, and the earned-income tax credit and child tax credit for 15 million low-income families.
Democrats voted for the deal, but had to give up their demands for an extension of emergency unemployment benefits that expire for 1.3 million people on Dec. 28.
In France euthanasia remains illegal, although particular cases periodically make the front pages of publications in support of demands for an extension of Leonetti's law towards the legalisation of euthanasia, and public debate is ongoing.
In a mayoral campaign with relatively few distinctions among the candidates, Mr. Giuliani helped create one by urging the contenders to bow to his demand for a term extension of several months, or face the threat of him trying to persuade the State Legislature to allow him to run for a third term.
The need for an extension of their deployment is obvious.
On Monday, Obama maintained that increasing the debt limit would not represent a concession by Republicans to Democrats, and said he simply would not give in to any demands in exchange for an extension.
He repeated Greece's demand for a two-year extension to the country's budget and spending overhaul.
Ms. Murray's tough line, in a speech at the Brookings Institution, signaled a stiffening of Democratic resolve a week after President Obama reiterated his demand for a one-year extension in the Bush-era tax cuts only for people earning less than $250,000.
