SENATOR OBAMA envisions legislation that leaves scant wiggle room on emissions cuts and exacts a price from the start for emissions permits.
He said he did not envision the legislation's enabling lawsuits against "neutral" technologies, like computer makers.
But as Somin correctly countered, all that we know about how corporations and special interest groups influence Congress, should make it easy to envision such legislation.
Mr. Lippman's task force largely mirrors the one envisioned in legislation sponsored in recent years by Michael N. Gianaris, a Queens assemblyman, but never approved by the full Legislature.
But calls to return to the same failed policies of the past, as envisioned by legislation Republicans forced through the House last year, are not the solution, and distract from the real problems facing our fishermen.
Never, he said, did he intend to allow the wholesale vacuuming up of domestic phone records, nor did his legislation envision that data dragnets would go beyond specific targets of terrorism investigations.
Supporters of the legislation envision that the health plans will offer broader benefits and better coordination of care than the existing Medicare program, in which doctors, hospitals and other providers are paid for each service or treatment and there is little incentive for anyone to take a broad view of a patient's health.
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin and one of the primary authors of the Patriot Act after 9/11, said this week on the House floor that never did he intend to allow the wholesale vacuuming up of domestic phone records, nor did his original legislation envision data dragnets beyond specific targets.
Danny Kanner, a spokesman for Mr. Schneiderman, declined to comment on the powers envisioned in the legislation.
