The 17 provisions would have limited the agency's ability to enforce environmental laws.

Another provision would limit emissions to the amount generated in 2000.

The provision would limit Medicare coverage to one consultation every five years.

In Miller's view the provisions of the bill, limiting donations to candidates for political office, should have gone even further.

A further reform measure that went into effect in 1907 was a provision limiting players' eligibility to three years.

The new provisions would limit officers' annual pay, with overtime, to twice their base salary.

Two other provisions limit the reach of recently legalized business method patents.

The other provision would limit exports from new refineries to 70,000 barrels a day or half of total production.

The Senate rightly argues that those provisions would limit the authority of states to set their own liability standards.