"This is because such a bill normally includes important measures involving things like tax avoidance and pensioners and working families.
By contrast, this year's austerity measures, involving a fiscal tightening of 4% of GDP, are genuinely tough.
Numerous studies suggest that consolidation based on spending cuts is more likely to stick, and will do more to boost medium-term growth, than measures involving tax increases.
Meanwhile the court itself in a new series of decisions began upholding as constitutional measures involving both state and federal economic regulation.
* Changing the law so that unit leaders can discuss gun-safety measures involving privately owned weapons with service members exhibiting high-risk behavior.
"It is unrealistic to think about protecting a collaborator without resorting to security measures involving both the person's transfer and change of identity," she said.
But Ms. Michelman dismissed the letter's release as a "desperate tactic," saying that whatever Mr. Lieberman may have thought then, what mattered was that on two subsequent occasions he voted in the Senate against parental notification measures involving abortion.
Congressional leaders can fold into the reconciliation bill almost any measures involving revenues or involving spending increases or decreases for entitlement programs, programs like Social Security and Medicare under which government benefits are paid automatically to everyone eligible.
A committee set up last week by the E.U. to look at the harder and more unlikely measures, involving treaty changes, doesn't have to report back until the autumn.
Without specifying if the latest arrests were linked to those books, the Vatican said Holy See prosecutors are weighing "further measures, involving, if it is the case, international cooperation".
These are not to mention ballot measures involving gambling on tribal Indian land (Proposition 1A), safe drinking water (12), watershed protection (13), restricting marriages to those between a man and a woman (22), and repealing excise surtaxes on cigarettes (28), which have active for and against advertising campaigns on television.
