Still, in the days since Mr. Bloomberg made his intentions public, opposition has been building with some City Council members planning to propose legislation challenging the mayor's plan.
The debate on the legislation set up a bitter midterm campaign season, with Republicans promising an effort to repeal the legislation, challenge its constitutionality or block its provisions in the states.
They also seemed likely to push forward with their own legislation, challenging Democrats to deal with the government-sponsored mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and pressing on various economic and trade issues.
State lawmakers clashed in rancorous debate Monday over how to respond to President-elect Donald Trump, with the majority party Democrats introducing a barrage of legislation challenging his key proposals on immigration, and urging him to abandon threats of mass deportations.
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Additionally, national variations in citizenship legislation impose challenges to the aim of mapping historical patterns of Olympic migration.
In Ontario, one of the earliest provinces to enact restrictive legislation, the challenges have focused on how the legislation has been implemented rather than on whether or not public accounting should be regulated.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Schneiderman, who sponsored the Senate version of the legislation, even challenged Ms. Rice to debate the issue with him, one on one.
Under the investor-state dispute settlement system in the TPP, companies can contest legislation and challenge governments through international arbitration panels.
European Union authorities insisted that they would stand firm on the legislation and challenged opponents, as they have before, to come up with an alternative that would help curb greenhouse gas emissions by airlines.
