Even so, François Goulard, another party legislator who opposes the DNA initiative, questioned why Ms. Amara was staying in the government.
The initiative in question, called the Massachusetts Clean Election Law, passed in 1998 by a 2-to-1 margin of voters.
Critics of the initiative may question whether it is practicable to keep raising barriers against new technology at a time when internet use is ever more pervasive, bloggers and citizen journalists proliferate and websites can be read from anywhere in the world.
It is also a reason for the initiative in question.
If the ballot initiative ― Question 2 ― to establish the expansion passes, it would mark a major win for progressive health care activists, the state's hospital industry and, most of all, the estimated 70,000 Mainers who would gain health coverage as a result.
Early in the DNA barcode initiative the question of how many specimens are needed to create a reliable reference for specimen identification and diversity assessment remained largely unresolved.
While auto analysts generally applauded the buyout initiative, they questioned whether G.M.'s turnaround was on track to restoring profits.
In his analysis, ballot initiatives like Question 5 are known as "70-percenters" -- that is, they are written in such a way that 70percentt of average voters would support them.
If China were to become the flag-carrier of a new south-south cooperation initiative, several questions need to be addressed.
