Based on the way Congress has cut the military budget since 1987, lawmakers were highly unlikely to go along with that ambitious proposal.

In its place, Montgomery came up with an even more ambitious airborne proposal.

Even the 75-cent plan has been blocked so far, along with more ambitious proposals to cut health care costs.

"Nine months later, we are still waiting for these ambitious proposals."

The first difficulty concerns trade and the environment, areas that give us particular cause for concern due to the lack of ambitious proposals.

That is quite clear and presumably explains the less ambitious proposals.

It is absolutely essential that steps should now be taken to make ambitious proposals for the time after 2012.

We know that 20 gets us nowhere, and nor does 25, so why not vote for the Greens' ambitious proposal of 12?

I call on the Commission to take this report as the starting point for the presentation of an ambitious legislative proposal and to act quickly.

The Commission - and this was acknowledged by most of you - has always been putting forward ambitious proposals.