Ms. Waters also played a crucial role in passing Mr. Frank's financial overhaul, pushing a provision that would make it easier for shareholders to oust a company's board members.
To placate those who wanted to see a stricter version, some senators were pushing a provision that would give regulators less say in how to enforce the rule.In this section Learning to crawl Clearing the usual suspects Bang or whimper?
Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., pushed a provision through the Senate which would bar any commercial bank that deals derivatives from receiving Fed loans.
(Sophisticated investors will also push for a provision prohibiting the pre-payment of the loan to prevent an end-run around the second and/or third approach).
Last night, he announced that he'd urged Democratic leaders in Congress not to pursue efforts to include an economic stimulus package in the bailout, or to push for a provision giving bankruptcy judges the power to rework mortgage rates because it might derail a deal.
They were pushing a new provision, HF 1546, that would ban students from using school bathrooms, showers and changing rooms other than those for the gender into which they were assigned.
A freshman senator in the minority party, he pushed through a provision to establish a national drinking age of 21, a measure that threatened to cut 10 percent of a state's federal highway money if it did not comply.
With backing from Consumers Union, AARP, managed care groups and many others, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, successfully pushed for a provision in the fall Medicare bill providing $50 million for head-to-head trials of comparable drugs.
After overcoming resistance inside his own party, Mr. Obama pushed for a provision requiring, for the first time, disclosure by lobbyists who bundle political contributions of more than $15,000 in six months.
He's also the person who helped Mr. Traficant deliver a swift kick in the knees to the I.R.S., by pushing through a provision in the tax reform bill of 1998 that hampered the agency's ability to seize a taxpayer's property.
