When Mr. Fink, the Assembly Speaker, held a news conference after the Governor's speech, he said he had not even noticed the proposal, which was included in the printed message but not the televised speech.
But since Free Trade Hall is in Manchester barely a two-hour railway ride from the capital the national media barely noticed the proposals.Fortunately, enough of a hue and cry was generated locally to provoke a public inquiry and ultimate rejection of the scheme.
One of the less-noticed proposals made late last year by the president's commission of fiscal responsibility and reform — sometimes known as the debt commission — was to gradually increase the gas tax by 15 cents per gallon from 2013 to 2015.
However, they are asking for trouble when they agree to review on one-hour's notice proposals that a team has been developing for weeks.Risk managers can't do a proper job if they aren't part of the team that develops the proposal.
In a little-noticed proposal, the Department of Homeland Security says that it plans to upgrade to its Secure Flight system, which pre-screens all passengers.
And just five days later, on Christmas Eve, a little-noticed proposal to reduce bus service on holidays could take effect.
The Obama administration is arguing that the sluggish economy requires a shot in the arm, and it included tens of billions of dollars of little-noticed stimulus measures in its much-noticed proposal to Congressional leaders last week.
The new year may not have brought an end to unemployment woes, but many workers who are laid off in 2010 will receive a helping hand paying for health insurance if a little-noticed proposal in President Obama's budget for the fiscal year 2011 is adopted.
Instead, Mr. Barbash and a group of Fire Island residents, including Irving Like, a lawyer who was also his brother-in-law, seized on a little-noticed proposal in a federal publication recommending that Fire Island's seashore be considered for designation as a national park.
The approval came despite 11th-hour concerns raised by five Democrats and a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who questioned why their panel -- which has responsibility for overseeing the F.B.I. -- was shut out of any discussion on the little-noticed proposal.
A little-noticed proposal in Congress to block a federal policy requiring free access to biomedical research papers went big time today, adding fuel to a long-running debate in the blogosphere.
