Enacting a payroll tax holiday, however, shouldn't end discussion of more forceful and effective proposals to stimulate employment.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg emerged as a forceful defender of the proposal, citing the constitutional protection of worship.
From Philadelphia to St . Petersburg Fla., mayors -- joining most of Trump's fellow presidential hopefuls -- are denouncing the proposal in forceful language.
Mr. Obama seemed eager to go beyond his past interventions in the race, which have included forceful rejections of Mr. Trump's statements and policy proposals.
Notably, it received permission to bring 982 Jews to a U.S. refugee camp in Oswego, New York, and in the waning months of World War II it was the most forceful American agency to consider and, at times, facilitate ransom proposals to exchange German citizens for Jews.
Over the past several years, college leaders across the country have successfully parried proposals to permit concealed guns on their campuses with forceful, data-driven arguments showing campuses are safer without them.
Though useful, Mr. Obama's new proposal would have a stronger effect if he combined it with forceful efforts to get Fannie, Freddie and private banks to reduce the principal on underwater loans.
In forceful and unyielding testimony, Attorney General John Ashcroft today defended the administration's array of antiterrorism proposals and accused some of the program's critics of aiding terrorists by providing "ammunition to America's enemies".
Rather than simply targeting Romney, the White House needs to be much more forceful in defending its economic record over the past few years, and in laying out proposals to create more jobs.
WASHINGTON — A series of potential Republican presidential contenders delivered forceful and personal condemnations of President Obama on Friday, criticizing his worldview, domestic agenda and economic proposals, while imploring fractious conservatives to unite around the goal of winning back the White House.
