In the 1990's, he joined with Republican senators to sponsor proposals to end tenure for public school teachers and allow direct grants to religion-based charities, measures that many Democratic groups opposed.
Lyell Dampeer, a senior executive at Broadridge, the firm providing the voting information, said he received a call last week from an employee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Wall Street's main lobbying group, requesting that Broadridge cut off access to organizations that are sponsoring proposals.
"The mayor uses interesting circular logic," said Patrick Flynn, an Assembly member who sponsored the proposal.
Today, Dick Buckey, one of the councilmen who sponsored the proposal, declined to comment on Tuesday's vote.
The two had also sponsored a proposal to tighten the circumstances in which one of the expiring provisions, known as Section 215, could be used.
"San Francisco always goes against the grain when there are assaults on people's liberties," said supervisor Eric Mar, who sponsored the proposal.
Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, who sponsored the proposal, said it was needed to help the United States cope with a growing nursing shortage.
Then it would be up to the European Union's member states to decide whether to adopt sanctions against the 60 officials, said Heidi Hautala, a member of the Finnish delegation, who sponsored the proposal.
John Kerry, a Democratic senator, and Dick Lugar, a Republican one, have sponsored a proposal to give visas to some immigrants keen to start new businesses.Tech folk have not given up on Mr Obama altogether.
But State Representative Tommy Benton, one of six House Republicans who sponsored a proposal this year intended to maintain the prestige of state-owned statues, cautioned that Georgia should not erase its past.
In 1997, he and Catherine Deneuve sponsored a proposal for a youth project in Dreux, and in 2000 he was designated an honorary Ambassador of Good Will in the Fight Against Racism by the United Nations.
