The shortfall is due mainly to India's failure to turn large infrastructure proposals into actual projects.
But member countries were having a hard time reshaping his proposals into something workable.
Ultimately, it is the governor who must assume the leading role and meld these proposals into a workable new law.
For President Obama, being "bipartisan" means incorporating a few right-of-center proposals into an essentially liberal legislative package.
Still, the new president now faces the challenge of turning proposals into laws and, more important, carrying them out.
The commission said it would convert Wednesday's proposals into legislative initiatives by the end of next year.
The journalists' union said it wanted the new talks to take place within the next week, before the BBC moved to put the current proposals into effect.
Writing to Mrs. Clinton on Dec. 4, 2009, Mr. Rivkin spoke of the need to channel Mr. Sarkozy's "impulsive proposals into constructive directions".
Mr Edsall fits Mr Obama's proposals into a broader effort endorsed by left-leaning economists to halt the sharp decline in labour's share of national income since 2000.
Unlike an existing Medicare commission whose recommendations Congress routinely disregards, the board could put its proposals into effect unless Congress modified or rejected them within 30 days.
And Mr Cardoso brought forward plans to set up a human-rights secretariat, with the job of translating the government's proposals into practice.
