Mr. Blunt offered the proposal as an amendment to a highway bill.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, offered the proposal and said those airports accounted for about 70percentt of air travel in the United States.
The 29-year-old politician, Anthony Zielinski, a member of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, offered the proposal in May, saying it would reduce the county's burial expenses.
Republicans and some Democrats saw a possible breakthrough last week when Republicans on the committee, long hostile to new taxes, offered the proposal to raise $300 billion in new tax revenue, mainly by scaling back tax deductions for higher-income households.
"This is one of the most important social and civil rights issues in the United States," said Senator Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, who had offered the proposal approved by the Senate in October.
Mrs. Feinstein, who offered the proposal, said it would affect about 2percentt of beneficiaries: individuals with incomes exceeding $100,000 a year and couples with incomes of more than $200,000.
By eliminating the discounts and rebates that are hidden from patients, and ensuring that the patients directly benefit from all discounts offered, the proposal will significantly improve price transparency in the pharmaceutical market.
The report, which cited unidentified administration officials, said Mr. Bush hoped to offer the proposal when he and Mr. Putin held their first face-to-face meeting, on June 16 in Slovenia.
Feynman offered the first known proposal for a nanomedical procedure to cure heart disease.
David Bookstaver, the spokesman for the court system, said the proposal offered the commission a range of salary possibilities based on factors set forth in the law.
