The Bush administration, on its last day in office, issued regulations to put those provisions into place--regulations that the Obama administration withdrew.
Assembly Republican leader Dean Skelos of Long Island was just as noncommittal of the proposal, although the Cuomo administration worked with key legislators on its provisions for weeks.
Clinton's call to significantly toughen the provisionson youth smoking and to preserve the Food and Drug Administration's jurisdiction over tobacco and nicotine was met with enthusiasm from many anti-smoking activists, but coolly in some offices in Congress.
Although no formal guidance has yet been issued by the White House budget office concerning how agencies should prepare, if Congress fails to act by August then the administration will have to formulate its future budget proposals on the assumption that the sequestration provisions of the law actually take effect.