Both initiatives call for extensive public money to pay for political campaigns, to be awarded after the candidates have raised modest sums on their own.

In 1951, a new initiative called the Home Rule Charter fully merged city and county offices.

An initiative called eco-pals where students took a green pledge to make the hostel campus plastic free.

In the coming months, we will launch an initiative called the Witness Video Hub (www.witness.org/technology).

For example, President Bush's initiative calls for treating two million people in 14 countries by 2008.

The initiative calls for cooperation between the two countries on the training of lawyers and judges, legal aid for the poor and numerous other subjects.

His initiative calls for thousands more volunteers to help with homeland security.

Another major initiative calls for spending $1 billion next year to buy land for conservation, a record amount.

"Some will say these initiatives call for a budget windfall for domestic programs," he said.

Both initiatives called for the restitution of property belonging to Holocaust victims.