The administration said its general approach was to have "states take a lead role in providing consumer protections, with federal enforcement only as a fallback measure".
In a statement after the White House session, Mr. McConnell indicated that he and his leadership counterparts were intent on devising a fallback measure to assure the borrowing ceiling was raised in time.
Presumably, the sort of fallback measure that Mr. Obama seeks could pass in the House only with strong support from Democrats, since conservative Republicans, by their revolt against Mr. Boehner this week, have signaled that they would not approve even legislation that raises tax rates for fewer than 1 percent of Americans.
It's a great fallback measure when a server-side security filter fails.
Boehner had proposed a fallback measure to keep tax rates in place for all incomes below $1 million after Jan . 1 when the Bush-era tax rates expire under current law.
Absence not only of circulating antibodies but also of cellular antibody production should alleviate concerns that the approach could lead to nephrotic syndrome, albeit protocols for immune suppression regiments should be in place as a fallback safety measure.
Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa and chairman of the labor, health and education appropriations subcommittee, praised the deal to safeguard the scholarships, but denounced the fallback to a temporary spending measure.
In doing so, he helped enable the Majority Leader to pursue his fallback strategy: getting practically any sort of measure passed and tossing the details of reform over to a Senate-House conference, which would deliberate in secrecy, with little input from anyone outside the G.O.P. leadership.
One of McConnell's fallback plans is to winnow the health care measure down to a handful of elements, including repeal of the individual mandate that penalizes people who have access to insurance but decline to buy it, on the theory that such a modest bill would be mutually acceptable the different factions in his caucus.
We used the model to test competing hypotheses regarding delayed effects of fallback at dams and visits to tributaries, and to define and estimate migration summary measures.
