Mr. Bloomberg is embracing the idea, appointing a second charter commission to devise a proposal for the public's consideration.
However, to devise a proposal that seeks out compromise and bridges the partisan divide, something that could actually become law and maybe solve some of our problems — that would be real genius and a true test of courage.
Mr. Bush said he would form a White House task force to devise a proposal that relies on private insurance plans, a government plan and H.M.O.'s to cover all the elderly.
He has assigned to his economic and environmental advisers the task of devising a proposal that is expected to combine a shot of new federal money into existing federal and state programs and the possible creation of agencies modeled on New Deal public works programs.
To that end, the Secretary of State shall examine existing law to determine the extent to which, consistent with applicable law, State and local jurisdictions may have greater involvement in the process of determining the placement or resettlement of refugees in their jurisdictions, and shall devise a proposal to lawfully promote such involvement.
The state devised a new proposal that it presented to residents in June.
As members of a federal advisory commission in 1998 and 1999, Senators Frist and Breaux devised an elaborate proposal to promote competition in the Medicare market.
Fleischmann and Weissmandl's rescue group, the Working Group, devised a more ambitious proposal in November that year.
Beginning in late 2004, they devised a set of proposals that were more ambitious than an incremental one from the Massachusetts Senate and more acceptable to him than one from the Massachusetts House of Representatives that incorporated a new payroll tax.
The governor, the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, and Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker, said they were creating a task force to devise a legislative proposal.
