Mr. Suozzi's Fix Albany campaign is centered on inadequately funded state mandates, like Medicaid, that force counties to cut costs and raise property taxes.
While a complete repeal is unlikely, Republicans, with enough voter support, could take a cudgel to key provisions – like mandated coverage – that could seriously weaken reform, perhaps crippling it.
Why did St Louis take on the public-housing mandate that produced the likes of Pruitt-Igoe in the first place?
Richard Morrissette, D-Oklahoma City, in explaining the state legislature's refusal to pass his several bills requiring the construction of safe rooms, adding, "People don't like anything that is mandated.
But if it comes, it will likely include devastating restrictions, like mandating that all transgenics be farmed at inland sites, where the cost of a tank system is at least ten times that of a typical cage at sea.
Ask yourself if the things you think are imperatives, mandates, rules, necessities, etc., are like that for others.
The U.S. EPA now mandated a "fumigation management plan" like that proposed by the Commodity Industry Coalition (U.S. EPA 2000).
More radical proposals, like mandating that insurance companies cover vaccines or having the government buy all vaccines, are not likely to gain political traction, experts said.
Ms. Estrin's suggestions for bolstering innovation range from the vague, like advising venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to take more risks, to the specific, like mandating that schools pay teachers higher salaries.
