The conversation was forthright, frank, measured, and equal in seriousness to what we were talking about.
Failure to comply with the Franks measure would force libraries and schools to return assistance received under President Clinton's so-called e-rate program in the form of subsidies for Internet access.
Though the Dodd-Frank measure was passed with bipartisan support, it has come under fierce criticism from many Republicans as well as some Democrats with financial constituents, who have urged regulators to slow the rule writing.
Those concerns include the efforts to carry out last year's health care plan, a vast expansion of business regulations under the Dodd-Frank measure passed by Congress and the slow pace of new trade agreements with foreign nations.
Concerned, Governor Whitman proposed a frank stopgap measure, a one-year plan while lawmakers thought of long-term solutions.
Moody's decision to review the ratings will reinforce the beliefs of those who say Dodd-Frank's measures are sufficient to deal with the "too big to fail" issue.
Mr. Corzine complimented Mr. Franks for the measures he supported, but said that as a state lawmaker, Mr. Franks had tried to "strip down" a 1990 assault weapons ban, and that the 1994 ban Mr. Franks voted for in Congress "allows people to own Uzis".
For his columns that year, Mr. Broder won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his analysis of party politics favoring neither one side nor the other but bringing equal measures of frank admiration and, just as often — perhaps more often — spitting disdain to both.
This index usually underestimated caries because it measures only frank cavitations [ 37].
Even without freshly written rules from the Fed, the Dodd-Frank legislation immediately introduced measures to make the central bank more accountable.
