Russia had initially been opposed to the plan but Sergei Lavrov, the country's foreign minister, referred the proposal back to Vladimir Putin, the president, diplomats said.
The town board referred the proposal to the town attorney, but Mr. Horton said it was legal and that some other towns in the state had a similar restriction.
The green light comes after the patients watchdog for north Wales decided not to refer the proposal to the Welsh government.
Legislators in New Jersey are planning to refer the proposal to the 2017 state ballot, Sonn says, which would effectively sidestep a potential veto from Governor Chris Christie.
"We are going to stop ANWAR," he said, referring to the proposal for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
"This is the single largest opportunity to preserve public housing units and our buildings," Mr. Rhea said, referring to the proposal to lease the land.
Ms. Bergquist was referring to the proposal to close the gap between light trucks and passenger cars, which domestic automakers have said would be too costly.
He was referring to the proposal's fine print, which states that the money could be used for any number of purposes, from "new agribusiness" to "security technologies" and nanotechnology.
While many of the ideas put forth in today's Verizon-Google proposal were Net Neutrality friendly, Copps is most likely referring to the proposal's more controversial elements such as the wholesale exclusion of wireless Internet or "new services" from any sort of Net Neutrality edict.
He kept referring to the proposal as $10.8 billion program -- taking the exaggerated figure cited by House Republicans and adding another fictitious year of budget projection.
