According to interviews with more than a dozen participants in the debates then and now, those lessons have helped the president's proposals progress further through Congress's committees than the plan advocated by Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton did.
It also recommended Thames Estuary airport proposals were not progressed further.
It also recommended any Thames Estuary airport proposals were not progressed any further.
As last week progressed, one proposal came from the wings to centre stage.
"It was always understood this would be left until after the election," says Smith, who adds that at ministerial level thinking has progressed, with proposals likely to be published shortly.
Blank research proposal outlines were distributed at the beginning of the workshop with interested participants supported to develop brief research proposals as the workshop progressed.
The Senate proposal offers progress in the right direction, including permanent authority for a successful local procurement program and greater flexibility to use cash instead of commodities where appropriate.
Since this original proposal, significant progress was made in terms of technology development and in refining the details of the scientific instrument (also see Section 9).
Under the first proposal (improved productivity through workforce innovation and reform), the Nursing Retention and Productivity Project is being progressed, and under the second proposal (improved mechanisms for the provision of efficient training) the National Medical Training Advisory Network (NMTAN) is being established.
A council report had warned councillors: "It is virtually certain that, if these proposals do not progress, there will be no future for the Rose Bowl".
