Surprising Ease In the end, the banks' startling success in defeating the provision, which was pushed hardest by Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, caught even their lobbyists by surprise.
If one of the 7 Democratic contenders fails to get 40% of the vote in this year's primary, there will be a runoff between the two top vote-getters - a provision that was pushed through the State Legislature after the 1969 election.
The provision, which is being pushed by Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican of California, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, says "chaplains in each of the military services would have the prerogative to pray according to the dictates of their own conscience".
The further provision means Lloyds has been pushed into a loss of £144m for the third quarter of the year.
For lack of any coordinated approach, provision of antivenoms has been pushed off the public health agenda, leading to an incongruous decline in demand for these crucial antidotes, excused and fed by new priorities, an absence of epidemiological data, and a poor regulatory framework.
The provision was also pushed by a team of lobbyists led by Birch Bayh, a former Democratic senator from Indiana.
Estimates from the Department of Health and Human Services, now circulating on Capitol Hill, show that monthly premiums for the elderly could differ widely under provisions of the House bill, being pushed by House members in negotiations with the Senate.
What lessons can we learn from the way the "Citibank" provisions in the budget deal were pushed through?
The measures were pushed through under a provision that the tax cuts would expire at the start of 2011.
