But Mr Netanyahu, who was abroad when Mr Beilin's bill passed by 50 votes to 45 (it will need 61 votes in later stages), is confident that his presence and persuasion will see off the measure next time it comes up.
Funding for that study, which is still underway, and any proposed changes to the arsenic levels, would be cut off if the House measure became law.
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On Wednesday, the chairman of the House panel, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, refused to put off consideration of the measure, saying the White House assertion of executive privilege "falls short" of any reason to delay the hearing.
The money is a one-off measure and the council said there could be no extra revenue costs.
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The Senate took a procedural vote that fell seven votes short of the 60 needed to cut off a filibuster on the measure.
There are rises in both the charge-off and delinquency rates, which measure the share of balances that are uncollectable or more than 30 days late respectively.
That language is a carry-over from 2011, when the bill was first fashioned as a job-creating measure designed to get money off the sidelines and into new companies.
However, supporters concede they are still short of the 60 votes they need to cut off debate and move on to final passage of the measure.
Still, press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday's big sell-off would be the wrong way to measure the bank bailout plan.
He added that it would take 11 years for the measure to pay off, and that it would be difficult to put legislation through without other areas of the UK demanding similar measures.
Here at CES 2013 the company is showing off a concept smartwatch that uses an ECG sensor to measure the pulse in your wrist.
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Soon after, on New Year's Eve, President Barack Obama signed into law sanctions against any entity which dealt with the Central Bank of Iran, a measure which put off many financial institutions from doing business with Iran under the fear of being locked out of the US market.
The best that can be hoped for now is a cooling-off period to reintroduce a measure of predictability in dealing with the two most dangerous issues: nuclear weapons and Kashmir.
He realised that some of the off-the-shelf equipment used by serious amateurs is sensitive enough to measure the light drop caused by distant transits.
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Just before Mr Pastrana got to Washington, the American House of Representatives had passed a measure that would cut off anti-drugs aid to Colombia if the government disrupted the coca-eradication scheme by its demilitarisation plan.
The Reds helped them in no small measure with the loss of Brad Hepi - sent off for a high tackle on Brett Goldspink.
For businesses, a measure that lets firms write off the full cost of capital equipment in the year it is purchased is about to end.
McCain had hoped for an early vote on the measure so he could dash off to a fundraiser in Philadelphia but the Democrats who run the Senate refused to accommodate the GOP's presidential finalist.
He won applause at the California speech when he pointed to a bill he has introduced that would require the Senate to hold off voting on a measure for one day for every 20 pages of legislation it considers.
The House passed the measure on Thursday, and both the Senate and President Bush are expected to sign off on the bill next week.
If I were to measure the Facebook approval rating based off social media and comment sentiment it would be overwhelmingly negative (probably about 80-90 percent bad).
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The condition to peg off-peak fares at RPI -1, or 1% below the retail price index measure of inflation, will be written into the contract for the next rail franchise.
They also predicted that the new measure would benefit the rich with substantial savings rather than encourage the less well-off to start saving.
We bounce light off of visible parts into hidden parts and then measure the time and direction of returned light.
In terms of adopting a measure, it does not take it off the table, it just -- the President is very mindful of every decision he makes, understanding what it means, what the purpose of it is, how achievable the goals behind it are, and what its cost will be.
Standing at 62, the measure came in below expectations, initially throwing off stocks, despite a later rebound.
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But once again the Democrat-controlled Senate failed to even take the measure up, and President Obama laughed it off.
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Having made the major contribution, the Spain World Cup winner was brought off as a precautionary measure after appearing to struggle with his hamstring.
Of course I'm not denying that there are people in Harare who still support the ruling party who totally believe that headline, but the majority of people would laugh it off as a desperate measure - trying to fill in a void.
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