He could pass what is known as a "clean C.R.," or continuing resolution, a simple law funding the government with no extraneous policies attached — which means no anti-Obamacare riders.
Crosby's first instruction was for the party to "scrape the barnacles off the boat", by shedding extraneous policies in favour of a ruthless focus on core issues such as welfare and immigration.
It has been reported that the prime minister's strategist Lynton Crosby wants to remove what he sees as extraneous policies from the government's agenda, and concentrate on a few key areas in the run-up to the 2015 general election.
While the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said Tuesday that "this is a funding bill and a budget bill and it's not the place for extraneous ideological or political policy to be addressed," the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, stepped back from his former hard-line position against riders.
Under strong cross-examination by the government, a high-ranking partner with Arthur Andersen testified today that the firm maintained a policy to destroy extraneous documents in part so the records could not be used against the firm in litigation.
Evaluation of changes to the health system, such as training staff and providing additional equipment, also needs to take account of, and measure if possible, unintended positive or negative consequences, as well as the impact of extraneous factors, such as a policy change, or change in the environment external to the heath system, such as extremes of climate.
Its early successes, he argued, owed much to extraneous events, like the peasants' revolt and policies that strayed from Marxist orthodoxy.
Republicans argued that Democratic DACA demands were extraneous to the continuing resolution to fund the government, which was true in the sense that the immigration policy is unrelated to spending levels.
They don't want to have to support a big building and staff and insurance policies and advertising campaigns and fixing the roof, because all of that seems to them to be extraneous to what they understand a life of faith to be".
Slushy details are extraneous.
