When he finally made it, he became a six-foot-four, 250-pound enforcer spending a almost 1,200 minutes of his 12-year career in the penalty box for teams like the Oilers, the Penguins, and the Canadiens until he retired in 2010.
"If Congress will not show spending restraint, I will enforce spending restraint," he said yesterday.
Most Democrats opposed the bill because of amendments that enforce spending limits and require all construction plans to be reviewed by the Legislature.
FRANKFURT — Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, laid the groundwork for a more aggressive response to the debt crisis Thursday, suggesting that the bank could increase its support for the European economy if political leaders took more radical steps to enforce spending discipline among members.
By insisting that greater action would depend on rules to enforce spending discipline among euro members, Mr. Draghi might at least partly address German concerns that greater central bank action would reward countries that have mismanaged their finances and violate a prohibition against financing governments.
For companies, it lets them set prompts to enforce spending limits and make sure details, like client names, are filled in correctly.
Two issues for owners: whether big-market owners agree to share even more revenue with poorer brethren that use that money for Greinke-like contracts that bid up the cost for All-Stars, and whether small-market owners agree to mechanisms designed to enforce spending and not pocketing shared revenue.
And euro zone leaders had recently agreed on tough new rules to enforce prudent spending by governments.
President Obama and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates began enforcing more spending discipline two years ago, but much more is needed.
Younger brother of legendary enforcer John Kordic, Dan spent the full 1996-97 and 1997-98 seasons with the Flyers, recording a career high in games (75 in 1996-97) and penalty minutes (210, two years in a row to lead the team in 1997-98).
