The Jets traded up to select Revis with the 14th pick in 2007 and then engaged in contentious negotiations with his representatives that spurred a 20-day holdout that summer.
Industry representatives were spurred to develop their own plan in response to a 2002 study by the National Academy of Sciences that concluded that companies needed more information about their emissions as well as a series of court cases in which big companies settled with the government over violations.
The recent controversy spurred Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California and the lead sponsor of the Yemen resolution, to conduct private meetings with his Democratic colleagues to prepare for a possible Republican effort to derail the resolution.
It also spurred Representative Farr, a Democrat, to help write the Clean Cruise Ship Act, which would make it illegal for cruise ships to discharge any wastewater, treated or otherwise, within 12 nautical miles of United States shores, and would apply strict rules for discharging treated wastewater up to 200 nautical miles off shore.
In Congress, spurred by Representative Roscoe G. Bartlett, Republican of Maryland, members of the movement hold hearings and recommend new safeguards, especially for the nation's power grid, for which protective steps could run into many billions of dollars.
His representatives told Spurs at the end of July that he wanted to speak to the Spanish giants.
It was "a very difficult position to be in", he says, but it spurred him and his fellow student representative to fight hard.
Neither union officials nor representatives of the hotel owners said the Strauss-Kahn case had spurred the provision.
The idea of mixing and mingling was originally advocated by the centrist group Third Way after the Tucson shooting that left Representative Gabrielle Giffords, a moderate Democrat from Arizona, critically wounded and spurred calls for a more civilized political discourse.
The flurry of activity involving the disappearance of Ms. Levy, spurred by the media attention on her relationship with Representative Gary A. Condit, is a singular exception.
