But several legislators and advocates for children are pushing hard for a dramatic gesture.

On the first anniversary of the Thomas-Hill hearings, many advocates for women are pushing for a more nuanced approach to a complex issue.

Reflecting this view, the advocates of a stimulus package pushed last fall to include subsidies that would permit states and cities to keep up their spending.

The Council and advocates for open government have long pushed for such a move.

The advocates of that bill are now pushing to close loopholes around so-called 527 groups.

But advocates of an accounting pushed back, from inside and outside the government.

Gun-control advocates push for hearings in order to strengthen the bill.

Many advocates pushed for that promise to be enshrined in law this year.

Those advocates are pushing to close Southbury, the state's last large institution for the retarded, and move its 867 residents into group homes.

But the single-payer advocates have been pushing hard ever since.