1.   The independent nonpartisan commission has proposed three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate.

2.   Besides screening prospective employees and volunteers, the commission proposed training all school employees in the appropriate response to sexual abuse allegations.

3.   Breaking with history, the commission will propose partial privatization of Social Security.

4.   - The commission also proposed bingo license suspensions for VFW posts in Lemay and Poplar Bluff, and Eagles clubs in Sikeston and Poplar Bluff.

5.   A government commission has even proposed an all-out immigrant recruitment drive.

6.   A presidential commission proposed major new protections for patients buffeted by changes in the health care industry.

7.   Britain had refused direct negotiations until the IRA disarmed, but the commission proposed that talks begin while an incremental disarming was under way.

8.   But the commission also proposed new rules that would permit authorizations for generic drugs before patents expire.

9.   Despite its official status and high-level membership, the commission only proposes ideas for acceptance by church authorities.

10.   For example, the commission proposed cutting entitlement programs by raising retirement eligibility ages, curbing Social Security cost of living increases and other penny-pinching measures.