Communications companies will be required to store records of customers' phone and internet use for 12 months in long-awaited measures overhauling the laws on surveillance by the state being published today.
Like the Senate bill, the House measure overhauls the legal immigration system, increases border and interior security enforcement requirements and provides a path to citizenship for some of the estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States, along with the McCaul-Thompson language.
Additional measures to overhaul the economy are necessary to reach that target, analysts said.
"Clearly, much more needs to be done," Mr. Singh said, "and we are determined to take all necessary measures to overhaul the system".
On Tuesday, the French parliament passed sweeping measures to overhaul the nation's notoriously rigid labor market to make it easier for employers to hire and fire.
"The ballooning bottom lines could embolden the lawmakers and regulators who want to introduce additional measures to overhaul the banking system".
The UN, which organised the financing for development (FFD) summit, described "a series of bold measures to overhaul global finance practices and generate investments for tackling a range of economic, social and environmental challenges".
Other bills that may be taken up include measures to overhaul the state's embattled ethics oversight panel, the Commission on Public Integrity, and to provide less generous pension benefits to new public workers.
Instead, he promised long-term measures to overhaul the tax code and said he would fight new regulations, including tougher fuel-economy requirements for cars and trucks that Congress recently passed and Mr. Bush signed into law.
The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that it would contribute €1 billion, or about 10 percent, of a bailout package for Cyprus but stipulated that the country would need to take tough measures to overhaul its beleaguered economy.
