Kennedy did not attend the Senate's first vote on the Medicare plan due to his illness.
EDF has delayed deciding on the plan due to funding problems, according to reports in France.
The first test will come in the reform plan due to be published in two or three months' time.
It will be seized upon by lobbyists to argue for spending priorities, and used by government to prepare the national adaptation plan, due to be published next year.
When I have to recalculate my flight plan due to thunderstorms, mechanical problems or low fuel, I'm so stressed I can't add 2 and 2.
We eventually abandoned this plan, due to various practical considerations involved with being connected to each other all night by a golden chain.
The plan, due to be unveiled at the end of August, will centre on converting yet more bank loans into subsidised, interest-free debt.
California regulators are also intent on forcing carmakers to produce electric vehicles, but that plan, due to start this year, has been delayed by a court challenge from General Motors and DaimlerChrysler.
The credit easing plan, due to be fleshed out in the budget in November, stops short of a state investment bank but is an implicit admission that commercial banks are unwilling or incapable of supplying credit to British business.
One site used to coordinate Anonymous operations, AnonNews.org, posted a statement saying that it was 'sincerely worried' about the plan, due to the bad press it could give to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
There could be a cut back, or phasing out, of existing employee shares schemes to make way for the new All Employee Share Option Plan, due to be introduced in April.
