That said, the changes Mr. Steinberg is championing — which include exempting urban projects from parking and aesthetic reviews, and speeding up the pace of litigation — are considerably short of the broader rollback of environmental reviews sought by business leaders.
These include: exempting income diverted to foreign branches of Luxembourg companies in places like Switzerland and Ireland, tax relief for paper investment losses, and the approval of complex 'hybrid' financial instruments and corporate structures within its borders.
Clegg proposed a series of changes to the £500-a-week cap, including exempting current claimants, in an attempt to ameliorate some of the worst consequences of the change, which critics claim will make 40,000 families homeless by making their current homes unaffordable.
"We shall come forward with detailed proposals which will make it attractive for students from families of modest means to go to university and will be fair and affordable including exempting the poorest students from graduate contributions for some (or all) of their studies," he said.
Other measures announced in the Queen's Speech include: Exempting employers from the first £2,000 of their National Insurance payments in an effort to support jobs and help small businesses.
Measures include exempting from health-and-safety legislation people who are self-employed and whose work poses no risk of harm to other people, and removing the ability of of employment tribunals to make wider recommendations in successful discrimination cases, which they were granted in the Equality Act 2010.
He then oversaw passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which banned all regulation of derivatives, including exempting them from state antigambling laws.
Briann Bieron, the senior global public policy director for eBay, said that he and other opponents of the measure plan to discuss the need to overhaul the Senate version of the bill with committee members, including exempting online businesses with less than $10 million in revenue from the tax requirement.
Priorities for reducing the overall cost of essential medicines include exempting medicines from import duties and value added taxes, prescribing maximum mark-ups in the supply chain, and encouraging prescribers to use generics.
He offered further changes yesterday, including one exempting hundreds of students who do not speak English from being left back based solely on the tests.
