With the added benefits for the long-term unemployed set to begin expiring Dec. 1, Democrats sought to put a three-month extension on the fast track before leaving for a weeklong Thanksgiving recess.
"We've got a major election contest that Mr. Gore's legal team has asked to be placed on a fast track before Judge Sauls; we have an argument before the United States Supreme Court on Friday; we have an action taking place in Palm Beach," Barry Richard, Mr. Bush's chief trial lawyer here, said in court Tuesday, venting his frustration.
So free traders in Congress, like Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, are trying to fast track Fast Track before the public notices.
In his first visit to Scotland since Jim Murphy was elected Scottish Labour leader, Miliband will also promise to immediately devolve control over the work programme jobs scheme to Holyrood if elected, a move which Labour still hopes to fast-track before the general election despite Conservative opposition.
He hopes to push the bill through Parliament on a fast track to approval before this summer.
"The game plan is to absolutely fast track this thing before the opposition can fully mobilize," one business lobbyist working closely with the administration said.
Those who want to become solicitors then have to pass the LPC, which also lasts a year, and costs between £7,000 and £13,000 (although there are now some fast track programmes available), before completing a two-year training contract.
They're left reeling if they suspect they're being mommy-tracked -- that is, taken off the fast track to success -- before they have a chance to recover.
"We were already on a fast track," he says, even before the technology started to get more exposure.In a development that both heartens and scares industry veterans, Microsoft is now moving in too.
Obama's White House is run by Rahm Emanuel, a former House leader who was generally considered to be on a fast track to the speakership before he resigned to become chief of staff, and it is teeming with aides plucked from the senior ranks of both chambers.
Mr. Reinfeldt said E.U. nations could make a voluntary decision to contribute to a mechanism, separate from the main financing pot, aimed at making money available on a fast track to developing countries before any new global deal on climate change goes into force.
