The participants (who met under the Chatham House Rule) included uber security geeks, privacy advocates, Defense Industrial representatives, and policy influencers.
Last year, when the House Republicans were passing the cut, cap and balance rule, the White House called it an empty political statement.
Uncertainty over the political viability of the public option has some House Democrats refusing to rule out the possibility of a final bill without the provision.
As everyone knows, President Bush is right now enduring his lowest approval ratings ever (Fox News poll this week had him down to 33 percent), and that explains the steady increase in people believing the Democrats might rule the House in the 110th Congress.
The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.
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The discussion in the lower house will be held under Rule 184 which entails voting, she added.
Eleanor Laing, the Conservative MP for Epping Forest, raised the issue in a Ten Minute Rule Bill at the House of Commons on Wednesday.
But by rule, the speaker of the House controls all space south of the centerpiece of the rotunda.
Other Democrats, including the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said the White House could calm things down if it would rule out prosecuting former top Bush Administration officials and just let a Senate investigation run its course.
Sir Garfield was rewarded for his support for black rule with a seat in the upper house of Parliament.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg prompted widespread derision from the opposition benches as he declined to rule out taking a seat in the House of Lords under an appointed system, were his planned reforms to fail.
But Wall Street money mavens know that not only can they bully the SEC to delay or snuff the fiduciary rule as long as Republicans control key House committees, they can channel the all-important flow of money to get those anti-investor Congressmen re-elected.
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The president will spend the coming days advocating the so-called Buffett rule detailed in his budget, said White House officials.
But suddenly Congress decided to vote against direct rule, making ratification impossible in the upper house, where the coalition has barely 35% of the seats.
Alpana Singh, a Chicago-based sommelier, author and almost-restaurateur (her Boarding House restaurant is opening soon), had a useful rule of thumb: Look for red wines "that you can see through, " she said.
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Before they captured the House in 1994, the Republicans had imposed upon themselves a rule: if any of their leaders were indicted, he or she would be suspended from his leadership position.
Or the White House budget and regulatory office could require the EPA to repropose the rule with more flexibility.
They've enlisted three members of the U.S. House of Representatives to sponsor a bill to amend the disputed tax rule.
Many House members also asked the IRS to withdraw its two-year rule.
In the jungle of corporate culture, it's best to have bigger domains over which to rule, as well as bigger bucks, a bigger house and car, and of course, bigger stature.
Lord Hanningfield said he supported rule changes which could see peers banned from the upper house if convicted of a crime leading to a prison term of more than 12 months.
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Governance Studies at the The Brookings Institution, suggested in 2001 that as a rule of thumb an incoming president need have their White House appointments -- their immediate inner circle -- in place by Thanksgiving (November 27) and Cabinet staff by Christmas (December 25).
He left his native Iraq during Saddam Hussein's rule and moved to Cairo where he now runs a "House of Oud" music school with branches in Egypt, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates.
The jury of seven men and five women were told earlier in the trial that Ms Simpson had broken a family rule by letting the dog, called Reuben, into the house when Ellie was visiting.
Representative Spencer Bachus urged investors and market players to submit ideas to the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee before September 7, saying that the rule as currently proposed would have a "devastating" impact on the U.S. economy.
At age 82, he came back as prime minister (for the fourth time), and in several exhausting months almost single-handedly pushed Home Rule through Parliament, only to see it contemptuously discarded by the House of Lords.
In March 2009 the House of Representatives made clear its displeasure with the mark-to-market accounting rule, which was substantially modified.
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That's why I'm grateful that both the House and the Senate have now voted to reinstate what's called the PAYGO rule.
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Tina Kreisher, an Interior Department spokeswoman, could not confirm whether the rule would be published before the deadline, saying only that the White House was still reviewing it.
History: "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " by Fredrik Logevall (Random House), a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.
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