In the most substantive passage of the speech, Mr. Hussein referred to "the bloody events of September 2001," saying the United States had shunned calls from leaders around the world, including himself, to "identify the causes" of the attacks and address them.
"Ratification of the new Start treaty demonstrates the limits of McConnell's ability to unify his party in opposition when the substantive case for passage is overwhelming".
So odds tilt strongly against passage of substantive changes in taxes or entitlements until after Mr. Obama and his Republican adversaries place their alternatives in front of voters in the 2012 presidential campaign.
The passage of a substantive health-care bill would be immensely to Obama's credit, but he would not be its only begetter.
In a legislative season that has had little substantive action, the Senate has approved a plan to make passage of citizen initiatives more difficult, and the House is not far behind.
3) The passage that rang the falsest, though, was not substantive; it was this rhetorical flourish near the end: And so to my friends on the right, I ask you to reconcile your commitment to America's military might with a failure to act when a cause is so plainly just.
Contrast that with the Trump tax bill, which, driven by threats from big GOP donors, was rushed from introduction to passage in just 51 days, leaving no time for substantive deliberation or negotiation — nor even a full understanding of how much debt it would create.
Briggs and Hall were both instrumental in drafting and gaining passage of the Post Office Act of 1836, which included substantive accounting reforms in the wake of financial mismanagement by Postmaster General William Taylor Barry.
Mr. Brown's victory, in a special election for the seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy, was full of substantive and symbolic significance, costing Democrats their 60-seat Senate majority and threatening the passage of the national health care bill that Mr. Kennedy had once championed.
