Would it be required in other states where similar laws might be enacted?
Republicans, who favor more sweeping tax reductions, said it was a nonstarter, though some provisions, like prescription coverage in Medicare, might be enacted.
Fear that stricter gun laws might be enacted cause more people to buy guns, especially semi-automatic assault rifles like the AR-15 used by Orlando killer.
But Treasury officials said such a plan would give them the biggest bang for the buck and might be enacted within several weeks.
The department director, U Tint Swe, was quoted by the United States-financed Radio Free Asia as saying a new media law would allow the press to be free of censors, though he did not say when such a law might be enacted.
"Alternatively, they might be enacted now but come into force only when the recovery is more robust, or be applied only to new beneficiaries — so-called 'grandfathering' of reforms," they said.
At its most self-absorbed, which is often, indie suggests a carefully curated daydream life, the kind that might be enacted, with just the right degree of ennui, on the set of a Wes Anderson film.
But Dr. Wilensky, a Medicare administrator in the first Bush administration, suggested that such a benefit might be enacted after the presidential election of 2004 or 2008, when a political consensus has been forged.
There have been suggestions from within the party that one or more of the judges whose civil rights records have been criticized might not be renominated by the Bush administration or that a measure might be enacted to prohibit racial profiling by states.
Ms. Weiser, of the Brennan Center, said that the place where the requirements in the Voting Rights Act had prevented the most discriminatory changes had been at the local level — and that without the requirement to seek approval for such changes from Washington, many changes might be enacted now without attracting much outside notice.
