Has the proposal been broadly adopted?
(The larger figure is the total by which Mr. Rowland said income taxes would have dropped since he took office in 1995, had this latest proposal been approved).
Had the proposal been in place in 2008, when Pennsylvania had one more electoral vote prior to reapportionment, Barack Obama would have carried only 11 of the state's 21 electoral votes despite winning Pennsylvania by a 10-point margin.
Even some of Ms. Pelosi's allies said the bill's withdrawal, while an embarrassment, may well have averted a larger problem for her had the proposal been approved, setting off problems with Turkey.
No sooner had the vexed proposal been withdrawn than the alternative was unveiled: a hastily drafted counter-terrorism (temporary provisions) bill "ready to be used as and when the need arises" according to the then home secretary.
Had our proposal been put into place on a large scale, it would have gone a long way toward ameliorating the current crisis and reducing the need for personal bankruptcies.
