If enacted, the measure would boost the wages of about 15 million low-income workers, the White House estimated.
If enacted, the measure would require that the articles be accessible online without charge within six months of their initial publication in a scholarly journal.
If enacted, the measure would allow taxpayers to subtract $1,000 at the end of four years from their adjusted gross income.
If enacted, the measure loosening federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research would make available government money for research on stem cell lines derived from embryos that have been in storage for use in in-vitro fertilization treatments but were set to be discarded.
Labour, nonetheless, set about enacting the measures that in some cases had been its program since the beginning of the century.
But Italy needs a strong government to enact the measures needed to guide it out of its recession, spur economic growth and create jobs to lower the unemployment rate, which as of late last year was about 11 percent generally and much higher for young people.
A public hearing on the proposal is scheduled for Nov. 27, and the Board of Health, whose approval is necessary to enact the measure, is expected to vote in January.
The Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, who voted for the energy measure because of its proposal to expand the use of corn-based ethanol, said he believed that chances to enact the measure this year were fading.
Congressional supporters of a patients' bill of rights said today that they had revised the legislation passed by the House last year, in a bid to win the votes of a few more Senate Republicans needed to enact the measure this fall.
Both groups are trying to deny Democrats the votes to enact the measure, which Mr. Berman portrayed as a power grab on behalf of unions by lawmakers supported by organized labor.
