This is a sound bill that deserves to be approved by both houses of the Legislature.
Senator Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, has introduced a sound bill — called the Protecting Consumers From Unreasonable Credit Rates Act — that would rein in excessive and unfair charges for credit card and other loans.
The most basic facts to keep in mind are that Mr. Obama's plan, which builds on a sound bill already passed by the Senate, would provide coverage to more than 30 million uninsured people while reducing future deficits and beginning to rein in medical costs.
But assuming we accept the letter signers' premise that Social Security must be part of any deficit-reduction package with aspirations to "go big," there is a perfectly sound bill in Congress that does just that.
DO not be put off by how eye-glazingly abstruse the subject sounds: A bill making its way through Congress to change how government-sponsored agencies like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are regulated could, if enacted, have some profound effects on the portfolios of millions of ordinary investors.
The solution, many now believe, is to fit electric and hybrid cars with external sound systems.A bill going through the American Congress wants to establish a minimum level of sound for vehicles that are not using an internal-combustion engine, so that blind people and other pedestrians can hear them coming.
A sound Senate bill, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, would establish a mandatory national registry of payments to physicians.
Knope could not persuade the public to adopt a scientifically sound water bill because her scientific facts were "too boring".
This fine spring, London is full of the sound of billing and cooing.
The term "loyalty in culture bill" sounds like something out of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
