But White House officials said there had been no internal debate on the matter and flatly dismissed the proposals, adding that they would not consider any changes because it would start the administration down a slippery slope of declaring some lobbyists acceptable and others unacceptable.
Religious groups, led by the Catholic bishops, dismissed the proposal as an "accounting gimmick" that did not solve the problem.
Hoyer dismissed the proposal, telling reporters on Capitol Hill that "you're either in or you're out".
If the court finds that such directives were in fact provided to the companies that are being sued, any lawsuits "shall be promptly dismissed," the proposal says.
But a senior German official dismissed the proposal as a "typical Brussels box of tricks" that would not pass muster with Merkel.
Calwell dismissed proposals that the ALP leader and deputy leader should be entitled to membership of the party's conference (or on its governing 12-person Federal Executive, which had two representatives from each state), and instead ran successfully for one of the conference's Victoria seats.
Republicans dismissed the proposal as a worthless gimmick.
But Zo? grandfather, Peter Oppenheim, dismissed the proposal as idealistic bunk.
Pundits immediately dismissed the proposal as a political gimmick.
