The new Republican-controlled Senate is seeking to embarrass Democrats by sending the president further legislation to which they know he is implacably opposed, such as measures to block his immigration reforms or repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Thus a ban on discards should only be put into place with accompanying measures (such as measures to increase selectivity of fishing gear) to minimise the catch of these discarded fish.
Other existing aspects of the ACA, such as measures to extend family coverage to older children up to age 26, also risk being overshadowed by the high-profile, though isolated, problems on the federal website.
The report is designed to help the music industry present itself to government as a substantial standalone business, which deserves legislative recognition over controversial issues such as measures to protect copyright from piracy.
Alongside familiar conservative demands for longer sentences and tougher policing, it includes ideas for tackling the causes of crime, such as measures to reduce drug-taking among young people and to clean up shanty-towns.
So the chancellor will try to knit together a variety of small, fairly cheap policy strands, such as measures to help small businesses with credit, into a coherent growth strategy.
Labour has signalled it is prepared to oppose new surveillance and counter-terrorism legislation if it is too heavy-handed, as David Cameron announces more details about his anti-terror strategy such as measures to prevent teenagers travelling to join Isis.
He said many decisions taken by the military were not discussed enough in advance and other decisions were made too late, such as measures to remove security officers accused of abuses, to keep members of the Mubarak regime from hiding the funds they allegedly took illicitly.
But the PRI may take a different view.The tax row bodes ill for other proposed reforms, such as measures to open up energy supply to private investment, which the government sees as vital to lift Mexico's economy out of three years of stagnation.
A number of Mr. Osborne's proposals cut at the very core of the British welfare state that grew so abundantly under the rule of the former Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, such as measures that would restrict child, baby and disability allowances.
Related topics such as measures and 2-cocyles on the free product (needed to deal with groupoid von Neumann algebras) are also discussed.
