Mr. McGreevey's most recent comments have been more conciliatory, however, and many doubt that the Senate Democrats will support the same measure they passed last year, when they knew it would be blocked in the Assembly.
Labor's environment spokesman, Tony Burke, also complained that some of the measures in the bill – such as the government's plan to cut $1.3bn in funding to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Arenaa) – were not the same measures that Labor had supported before the election.
Firstly, linear and angular measurements were taken using a clear simmetro supported on the plaster models, than the same measures were calculated on digital images and compared with the first ones.
Late on Friday, as it became increasingly clear the Republican conference was shifting toward Coburn, Norquist performed a bit of legislative gymnastics, releasing a statement saying that it was okay to support the Coburn amendment -- the same measure he'd savaged for weeks -- as long as Coburn also supported an amendment from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C).
Unfortunately, evidence derived from applying the Rasch model to data from different language versions of the same measure does not support this assumption.
In 2009 the same measure was 1.77%.
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, who vehemently opposes legislation to reduce the number of votes needed to override his vetoes, supported the exact same measure before he was board president, Capitol Fax's Rich Miller reports.
In many states, the relative influence of these various groups was difficult to measure, because the secular and the religious organizations tended to support the same candidates and espouse the same goals.
The lack of DIF along the most important variables in the case-mix model supports that the same construct is measured across subgroups with different characteristics.
First, unlike most previous studies, we used both structural and functional measures of social support in the same study.
