The President's Proposal authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMSS) to work collaboratively with the Internal Revenue Service IRSS) to determine which providers have seriously delinquent tax debt to help identify potentially fraudulent providers sooner.
President Obama's 2013 budget proposal authorizes funding for syringe exchange, and the administration should fight for it.
Known as Proposition Q, the proposal would authorize city officials to forcibly remove the tents and other structures from sidewalks after giving its residents 24-hour written notice.
Among other things, the proposal would authorize storage, desalination and water recycling projects, increase how much water could be pumped south from the delta area and expand the use of conservation hatcheries for salmon and delta smelt.
Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat poised to become chairman of the Finance Committee, voted in March against a proposal authorizing Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
President Bush reached an agreement today with House leaders on a proposal authorizing him to use force against Iraq, a deal that Democrats acknowledged cleared the way for approval of a joint Congressional resolution supporting action against Saddam Hussein.
Mr. Sharon lost a compromise proposal, authorizing him to negotiate a new coalition with any "Zionist party," by a margin of only 19 votes, which might make it easier for him to ignore it.
A17 NATIONAL A18-25 Bush Reaches Iraq Deal House Authorizes Force President Bush reached an agreement with House leaders on a proposal authorizing him to use force against Iraq, a deal Democrats acknowledged clears the way for approval of a joint Congressional resolution supporting action against Saddam Hussein.
Within a long list of problems, shortcomings and backsliding by the I.R.S., the proposal that Congress authorize "apology payments" is the most unusual.
The Swiss originally balked at the proposal and, in March, authorized the creation of a much smaller database that included only 46,000 accounts.
Defense officials have refused to say exactly what procedures were authorized under the proposal or under later directives put into effect in Iraq.
