"There is some degree of coalescence around those elements we outlined," said Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman.
"We are only beginning the consultation phase with lawmakers over how we improve Medicare based on the principles we outlined," said Scott McClellan, a White House spokesman.
Chief Justice Roberts, applying the more rigorous standard he outlined, said that the risks identified by the inmates were not "so substantial or imminent as to amount to an Eighth Amendment violation".
"I don't think that there is any point in trying to get Congress to have a more restrictive policy than the president has outlined," said Richard Doerflinger, who represents the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which opposes all stem cell studies.
The filmmakers told little else about the film, beyond its broadest outlines, saying the rest would be filled in at a screening on Monday at the Khudozhestvenny movie theater, a few blocks from the Kremlin.
But everyone here, from industry leaders to industry critics, backed the broad outlines, saying that imperfect as the plan may be, it is an important step toward ending the suffering of people in countries where conflict has been perpetuated by the diamond dealings of rebel movements.
Another, a "former thug," according to the outline, said, "I'd rather take a chance with a club".
"This general plan had been established even before the rise of the Nazis to power," the outline says.
Statements "injurious to the State would be ruthlessly punished by 'protective custody,' that is, the concentration camp," the outline says.
Soon after Hitler assumed dictatorial powers, "relations between the Nazi state and the church became progressively worse," the outline says.
