Mr. Levy intends to pick a winning idea from the pile before summer's end — actually, he will select two winners, as there is a separate suggestion box for schoolchildren — and crank up the machinery necessary to transform the idea into a bill for proposed legislation or, at the very least, issue an executive order recognizing the proposal.
Representatives Nancy Pelosi of California and Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri could greet that line with a disdainful look, recognizing the proposal to limit the legal responsibilities of health care providers.
I believe that the gas tax proposal fell victim to a surge of premature, anti-tax assaults and that the public -- properly informed of the tradeoffs and assured of safeguards for the protection of future financial viability -- would recognize the proposal as sound public investment.
Meanwhile, Israelis caviled over the composition of the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation slated by the Hussein-Arafat proposal--thereby failing to recognize the proposal's potential.
The government must have recognized the nature of the proposal, as early drafts included ISP-level opt-out clauses.
Mr. Cannon said he had received little guidance about what to do until Wednesday, when Judge Carl J. Barbier of Federal District Court in New Orleans issued a terse order saying that "although it should not be necessary to state the obvious," his order recognizing the settlement proposal should not prevent other settlements with the oil company.
"D.E.C. was not going to address it in a way that was adequate enough for industry," he said, adding, "The governor recognized the legitimate inequities in the proposal that D.E.C. had put on the street and was very concerned about undue cost on business".
Mr. Geithner said his proposal recognized the significant role that unregulated derivatives, particularly credit-default swaps, played in the financial crisis.
(To be fair, Patterson recognized "the inhumanity" of his proposal, as "it involves the separation of families, and of the sexes at marriageable ages"; it would have also left "in the South an enormous disproportionate of male slaves under circumstances most of all calculated to dissatisfy and brutalize them").
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat from Maryland and the main sponsor of a women's health amendment approved by the Senate, went to great lengths on Thursday to make sure fellow lawmakers recognized the differences between her proposal and a rival one put forward by Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska.
