In the German empire as well as in Austria, Maximilian introduced sweeping administrative reforms that were the first steps toward a centralized administration.
The win was about as sweeping as the administration could have hoped.
The Patriot Act, granting the administration sweeping powers to combat terrorism, passed 357-66 in the House and 98-1 in the Senate.
As sweeping as the administration's proposals seem to be, they are only tentative steps toward truly effective regulation by a government and political system that is impotent when it isn't corrupt.
In addition to his sweeping public administration proposals, his plans include the establishment of 15 metropolitan authorities with wide-ranging powers, each led by a mayor.
The economic speeches will not contain sweeping new proposals, senior administration officials said Monday.
His administration promised sweeping reforms, but has been dogged by allegations of human rights abuses.
At the time, the administration proposed sweeping measures to "modernize" the foreign surveillance law, a much broader proposal in some respects than what Congress approved.
But the law also gives private health insurance plans a big new role in Medicare, and Democrats, who attack the legislation as overly generous to pharmaceutical and insurance companies, want sweeping changes, which the administration is resisting.
As with the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, Egypt's disciplined and professional army was taking upon itself the duty of sweeping away a collapsing administration and stepping into the breach.On July 3rd Mr Morsi was deposed and detained, as were many other leaders of the Brotherhood.
He did not mention a presidential order creating military tribunals or sweeping efforts by his administration to investigate the lives of people suspected of terrorism, including expanded government wiretapping and the monitoring of communications between some people in federal custody and their lawyers.
