"We're going nowhere fast," Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the Democratic leader, said in an interview.
"One of the principal tenets of the administration and of ourselves is we have got to do this fast," Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader, said Wednesday.
On Jan . 10 Slim-Fast representatives will be in Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores to give personalized service to potential customers, including checking consumers' body mass index and distributing pedometers, product samples and personalized exercise plans.
For their part, fast food representatives say the eateries, which are largely run by franchisees, operate on thin profit margins, making it difficult for them to raise worker pay.
"This is going way too fast," said Representative Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana and a conservative leader who said constituents he met this weekend were flabbergasted at the plan.
Yet with Election Day fast approaching, Representative Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat who has been rated among the most liberal members of Congress, finds herself about even in the polls with the Republican candidate, former Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, who once ran for president, and who not long ago was widely presumed to walk away with the open Senate seat here.
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"We have to make a bigger dent faster," said Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, who predicted that dozens of House Republicans would oppose the spending bill.
Other signatories to the bishops' letter, organised by the End Hunger Fast campaign, include representatives of all the main Christian denominations, including Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, and Quakers, as well as groupings such as the Evangelical Alliance.
With the ceremony date fast approaching, a representative of the White House tracked down Dr. Khorana at a scientific meeting and told him he would be receiving the award.
These soil samples were collected from 11 sites in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region, a representative fast developing area in China.
