Lest euphemisms become synonyms, dictionaries become undone, and minds become mangled, we must all complain. I don't know. Allied to euphemism is circumlocution, another stratagem that politicians depend on. The verb phrase is supportive of is less binding than the verb supports and nicely serves the senator his equivocal purpose. Verb phrases are more wordy than verbs, so it seems as though more is being said, but they are less direct and less meaningful.
Deception requires more words than truthfulness.
The phrase hope and expectation is redundant, but to qualify expectation with cautiously optimistic is witless. Still uneasy with his pronouncement, the bureaucrat further tempers it with the may preceding be enacted. Moreover, despite the confines of their columns, newspaper and magazine writers have yet to learn much about using the shorter phrase or the single word. Oftentimes, the Senate, as well as the White House, struggles with questions involving what is now being described as lifestyle. The problem is that, in effect, the Senate and the White House sometimes are being asked to put their stamp of approval on lifestyles that, while acceptable in Washington, are not acceptable by general standards elsewhere.