The rule change "would be huge," California Representative Diana DeGette of Colorado told National Public Radio.
White supporters denounced the bronze-relief plan as an "insult" to their heritage, and mustered the votes to defeat it, 65 to 43. "The Civil War was a big part of the history of the state, not a small part, but huge," said Representative William F. Cotty, a Republican from Columbia.
The so-called high representative has huge powers in Bosnia, which derive from the Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in 1995.
"It's a huge development," said Representative Christopher Shays, the Connecticut Republican who, with Representative Martin T. Meehan, Democrat of Massachusetts, is a leading sponsor of the bill to ban the unregulated and unlimited contributions to political parties known as soft money.
"It's going to be a huge fight," said Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a Democrat from Brooklyn.
"It was a huge opportunity missed," Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, a Democratic member of the committee, said in an interview on Sunday.
"This is a huge victory," said Representative Jos?. Serrano, Democrat of New York, who has fought for years to close the plant, which is in his district.
"Those who talk about the stimulative effect, you're talking about small drops in a huge sea," said Representative Sander M. Levin, Democrat of Michigan.
Many problems with observational studies would be resolved if the sample sizes were huge and more representative of the population ("In Public Health, Definitive Data Can Be Elusive").
"Now we're going to shift to oversight of the health care law, and clearly there are huge problems," said Representative Dave Camp, the Michigan Republican who leads the powerful tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
