Most alarming to the republican faithful , although he says the centrepiece of mr obama 's health reforms , the individual mandate , is a terrible idea at federal level , he championed just such a measure in massachusetts .
Mr obama failed to win any republican votes at all for the legislative centrepiece of his first term , health-care reform , and only a handful for his stimulus bill and the dodd-frank overhaul of the financial sector .
In the wake of the dollar crises of the early postwar period , the imf membership adopted sdr as the centrepiece of a strategy to build an international monetary system that would no longer rely on a single currency .
In the 1990s mr ryan was a speechwriter for jack kemp , the effervescent congressman who , in the late 1970s and early 1980s , made supply-side economics a centrepiece of republican electoral ambitions .