Only days before the bill passed, the UnitedHealth Group, the largest insurer, bought the Golden Rule Insurance Company, a pioneer in selling medical savings accounts, a less-favored version of the accounts, for $500 million.
Mr. Barnier, the commissioner who will continue to have a role in helping to draft the bill, suggested Monday that he favored a version of the legislation under consideration by the European Parliament and currently favored by British officials.
Despite their different perspectives on the value of more STEM-trained immigrants, all favored some version of the reforms being debated.
Conservative Republicans in both chambers favor a version of the bill that features far more restrictions on spending and taxes than previous measures.
But the concerns raised by Ms. Sailors and other citizens about property acquisition issues and years of construction led Livermore leaders to favor a version of the plan that the study rejected: a 5-mile, $1.2 billion extension with just one stop, on the median of the 580 freeway on the outskirts of town.
What events in history might have favored these versions of the genes in gypsies and Romanians, but not in Indians?
The vast majority favored the Senate version of the bill, which gives states more flexibility -- and offers $31 billion in aid, compared to $23 billion from the House.
Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, is an advocate of a loyalty oath, and there is speculation in Israel that Mr. Netanyahu, who originally favored a softer version of the oath, was seeking to placate Mr. Lieberman to get him to accept a freeze extension.
A handful of Democratic sponsors, and the majority of the Republican conference, favor the classic version of the bill, and so it will receive a vote next week under an expedited procedure in the House.
