ALBANY -- State lawmakers reacted with cautious interest on Wednesday to a broad proposal from Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch to tackle New York's staggering long-term budget deficit, but suggested that it would most likely require changes to win legislative approval.
In its backup for the ad, the Grimes campaign cites a July 12 , 2012 Washington Post story that says the Democratic plan for small-business tax breaks got caught up in a partisan "procedural debate over how and when the Senate should vote on a broader proposal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts that expire at the end of the year".
Such a broad proposal guaranteeing lawyers for civil cases would draw intense political opposition.
President Bush's executive order is a broad proposal that has enormous potential for abuse.
Representative John Bingham, the primary author of the Fourteenth Amendment, pushed for a wide-ranging ban on suffrage limitations, but a broader proposal banning voter restriction on the basis of "race, color, nativity, property, education, or religious beliefs" was rejected.
Regulators would use the time to complete a broader proposal to police derivatives trading overseas.
But he said the administration had not laid out a broader proposal for what comes next.
They worked for years with some community members on a broad development proposal that included lots of jobs, the reopening of a closed hotel, the unheard-of donation of 26,000 acres for conservation.
House Democratic leaders are working on a broad immigration proposal that they hope will reinvigorate the debate on Capitol Hill and pressure their Republican counterparts to pass legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the country.
" 'Comprehensive' has always been a swear word in the House of Representatives, but having a step-by-step approach that deals with the issue comprehensively, I don't think that's dead," said Representative Raúl Labrador, Republican of Idaho, a Hispanic legislator who until recently had been part of a bipartisan group in the House working on a broad immigration proposal.
