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Mr. Sweeney also pressed for two measures favored by developers.

Some Democrats have asserted that leading Republican donors had special access to the task force and that the energy policy is skewed toward measures favored by major corporations.

In 1999, according to a list compiled by the League of Conservation Voters, he voted for measures favored by environmental organizations 11percentt of the time.

And Western countries, the United States included, have so far experienced only isolated cases, despite shunning the draconian measures favored by some politicians.

But he has stopped short of the more confrontational measures favored by the Taiwan Solidarity Union, partly because of American pressure.

But he said he suspected that Mr. Cuomo's State of the State address — in which he proposed many measures favored by liberals — had also alienated some voters.

The index excluding food and energy — an inflation measure favored by the Federal Reserve — rose less than 0.1percentt.

In any event, they said, the House Republican bill comes much closer to meeting the president's criteria than does the measure favored by most Senate Democrats.

Since then, the inflation measure favored by the Fed — the price index for personal consumption, excluding food and energy — has averaged 1.9 percent, annualized.

But Representative Charlie Norwood, Republican of Georgia, a champion of patients' rights, said the measure favored by Mr. Bush "could actually give H.M.O.'s greater legal protection against liability than they have under current law, as interpreted by recent federal court decisions".

And this week, it invalidated the California primary system, which allowed votes across party lines, reasoning that a measure favored by political moderates like Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and Republican Representative Tom Campbell in fact violated political parties' freedom of association.