Mr. Grassley said he worried that "partisan bickering" could block passage of any measure on the issue.
The ballot measure on the issue, Proposition 203, won by just 4,341 votes out of more than 1.67 million ballots counted, according to final tallies announced on Saturday.
Instead, opponents are saying that they will try to push a ballot measure on the issue in 2015.
While this contingency may have a good deal of plausibility in the case of linguistic items, by itself conceptualism is just a stopgap measure on the issue of types and tokens generally.
They remain in doubt, although the balance of probability has moved towards a belief that a modest amount of global warming is under way.In democracies, politicians have resisted Draconian measures, on this issue as on others, because they shrink from the idea of imposing real costs during their time in office for potential benefits later.
On Thursday, Richard C. Holbrooke, the American ambassador to the United Nations, announced that the United States, which abstained on a resolution in the Security Council last weekend broadly criticizing the renewal of fighting, would veto any further Security Council measures on this issue.
His last measures on this issue, aren't much alike to George W. Bush.
Also, companies that take proactive measures on these issues are insufficiently rewarded by markets, which continue to be driven by short-term considerations.
The measure is silent on the issue of civil rights.
Last February, a ballot measure was proposed on the issue, but it died in the State Senate.
