Conversely, they've rejected calls from their own advisors to introduce prescription heroin and supervised injection rooms, proposals designed to reduce deaths and cut out criminal suppliers.
With Issue Project Room, whose proposal to Two Trees won over those from more than 100 other organizations, the building will become a home for all kinds of experimental music, theater, dance, literary readings and film.
But the response to their room-splitting proposal was an unwavering no.
Take, for instance, Rooms, the proposal of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara's Belgium-based practice Dogma.
California, in its expansive assault weapons ban, had included thumbhole stocks, but some leaders in the room worried the proposal was too broad and would eliminate ordinary hunting rifles with similar features.
An audience poll at the end of the evening showed the majority of the room rejected the proposal to lift the ban - though there was also significant support for the idea.
On February 10th of last year, the newly appointed Treasury Secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, appeared in the Treasury's Cash Room to outline proposals that would relieve banks of toxic assets, force them to undergo stress tests, and provide relief for struggling homeowners.
That would exceed the roughly $850 billion limit that Mr. Obama has set for Congress, House Democratic leadership aides said, and leave no room for other proposals that senators of both parties are poised to seek during Senate debate next week.
On a bright autumn morning, Dannenfelser and her top staff squeezed into a conference room to hear proposals from Adam Schaeffer, the co-founder of a political-consulting group called Evolving Strategies, which uses sociological methods to test political messages.
They sit in a room, review grant proposals, and score them based on scientific merit.
