Some Republicans are urging lawmakers to focus on other proposals inside the massive legislation.
The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, on Tuesday pointed to public opinion polls that showed a strong majority of Americans support many of the specific proposals inside the overall health care plan, but opposed the plan because of the messy legislative process surrounding the bill.
The initiative was announced yesterday at the TED 2011 event in Long Beach, California, where JR's proposal for "Inside Out" -- as the project is dubbed -- won the $100,000 TED Prize.
It was just the kind of heat he had been trying to generate, buoying his hope that his book proposal for "The Inside Story on How a Hot Young Media-Journalist Published His First Book on the Media" might be published after all.
Word of a few other proposals from inside the I.T.U. have surfaced.
"We are still discussing it," the Saudi Arabian foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, said at a news conference moments after the sheik's proposal first circulated inside the conference hall.
The proposal came from inside the band's coterie, and had the initial imprimatur of the band's label.
In this work, we improve PPSampler by refining scoring functions and a proposal distribution used inside the algorithm so that predicted clusters are more accurate as well as the resulting algorithm runs faster.
Then, for each superpixel inside the proposal, we use its contrast to high-contrast superpixels and background superpixels, weighted by distance bias, to determine whether it should be included in the refined proposal.
The proposal forced a debate inside the Obama administration, with some of Mr. Obama's top aides arguing that Syria's chaotic battlefield would make it nearly impossible to ensure that weapons provided by the C.I.A. could be kept out of the hands of militant groups like the Nusra Front.
