They're not passing laws for the entirety of the country, like your congressmen are, they are passing laws for only this state.
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We're going to continue to see red states passing laws making it harder to register to vote, and blue states passing laws making it easier to register to vote.
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Can you explain some of the struggles around passing laws?
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It's passing laws that require them to be transparent and responsive.
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I think next step is running for office and passing laws.
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States are passing laws allowing people with felony convictions to vote.
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It means passing laws that ensure paid sick and family leave.
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It suggests that passing laws alone will not solve the issue.
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Yet more and more cities keep passing laws restricting vehicle-dwelling.
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States are passing laws that are systematically stripping away women's reproductive rights.
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Now, Brussels is passing laws to counter China's influence in the region.
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Seven ended up successfully passing laws, the National Women's Law Center found.
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I don't see Congress passing laws to prevent themselves from doing this, unfortunately.
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A number of states are passing laws to shield individuals from surprise charges.
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Conservative legislators respond by passing laws to invalidate them at the state level.
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But some states are countering the rollback, passing laws that would expand coverage.
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During the early 19th century, the city began passing laws against harboring pigs.
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Its job is to run the country by passing laws and providing public services.
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After the 1929 crash, lawmakers reacted by passing laws aimed at ensuring investor protection.
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Wade's court ruling and how to stop states from passing laws that restrict abortions.
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The way the American political system works is that passing laws is clunky and difficult.
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"I don't think you can control people's behavior by passing laws," Wilson told the Republic.
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I've had a little bit of success in my state in terms of passing laws.
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Countries like the United States and Luxembourg are "posturing" by passing laws legalizing space mining.
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Conservative legislators then began to test those waters, passing laws mandating waiting periods and ultrasounds.
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And around the world, governments are passing laws intended to protect consumer privacy, especially online.
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Those steps include passing laws to reform the bail system and making trials move faster.
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The Community Broadband Act would preempt states from passing laws that prohibit municipal broadband networks.
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Now, Congress must do its job and start passing laws to fix our broken immigration system.
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States across the country are passing laws to permit the use of autonomous delivery robots statewide.
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Colombia's "fast-track" year for passing laws to implement the peace process ended with mixed results.
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Once news spread of the dangers of smoking, local communities began passing laws to raise awareness.
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Even worse, cities across the country are responding by passing laws to make homelessness a crime.
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Fidel: They immediately obstructed enrollment efforts by passing laws intended to limit and defund Obamacare outreach.
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They've tended to downplay the role of Congress in passing laws or brokering a bipartisan compromise.
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Let's come together to fight for our children instead of passing laws to increase their suffering.
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When I asked Lewis about passing laws to restrict gun sales, she just shook her head.
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Companies are lining up to launch space mining missions, and countries are passing laws to allow them.
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"While there is some saber rattling at the federal level, more states keep passing laws," Dayton said.
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You can be pro-life without passing laws that increase the needless deaths of women and infants.
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She seems to prefer the bright lights of cable television appearances to the minutiae of passing laws.
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More people have started using seat belts due to states passing laws requiring drivers to buckle up.
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Even while Brunei was participating in the TPP negotiations, that country was passing laws that harm women.
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Legislators love passing laws, but they're much less likely to go back and clean up old ones.
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Those are the voters Republicans stand to lose by passing laws that legitimately endanger abortion rights, Wilson said.
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But California has been more enthusiastic than most states in passing laws restricting what ex-convicts can do.
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For years, they took a slow-but-steady approach, passing laws that gradually gnawed away at Roe's protections.
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As Lawful Evil, Pence would further his agenda by passing laws that follow a coherent social conservative agenda.
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Passing laws that make it less costly to hire and fire workers is likely to slow its advance.
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Egypt is passing laws aimed at attracting investment but economists say it must expedite matters to reassure investors.
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Wade comes amid a flurry of states passing laws to chip away at the landmark Supreme Court decision.
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Cities have attempted to mitigate these hazards by passing laws requiring riders to wear helmets and protective gear.
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Red, purple and blue states are now passing laws that provide for the reasonable accommodation of pregnant workers.
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The United States in the 1880s had pioneered racialized immigration policy, passing laws aimed at keeping Asians out.
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She called for fellow lawmakers to continue fighting discrimination in Congress by passing laws against acts of hate.
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Wade is overturned, passing laws like these will always to be a waste of time and money for states.
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These come as Alabama and others have gone the other way by passing laws that effectively ban the procedure.
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"Some states that have decriminalized marijuana are not even close to passing laws to regulate marijuana," he told Refinery29.
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He criticized states like North Carolina and Texas for passing laws that affected the voting rights of marginalized communities.
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Richard Cauchi, program director for health for the conference of state legislatures, said just passing laws doesn't guarantee success.
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Politicians scrambled after them, beginning the Progressive Era, passing laws protecting workers, cleaning up cities and championing the young.
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Congress, however, can diminish the effect of executive and judicial policymaking by actually passing laws on several fronts, including.
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Opponents sometimes respond by passing state-level pre-emption laws that prohibit cities from passing laws on certain issues.
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Well, I'm just saying you're not going to resolve it by passing laws in terms of restricting gun owners' rights.
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It also indefinitely bars local governments from passing laws saying trans people can use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity.
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"Women's health" was always the stated justification for passing laws that ended up closing abortion clinics or otherwise restricting access.
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If military experts see this as likely, passing laws to require domestic production of flat-panel displays would be prudent.
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Bc some folks using free speech to defend racism are also supporting folks passing laws to allow running over protesters.
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Anti-choice politicians across the country are passing laws restricting abortion left and right, with little regard for women's autonomy.
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Compared with most other countries, governments in Britain have unusual powers of discretion to get things done without passing laws.
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It has resisted, except in states and municipalities that have forced its hand by passing laws raising the minimum wage.
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Lieu is backing the Encrypt Act, which would bar states from passing laws requiring companies to weaken their encryption systems.
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By the eighteen-nineties, they were passing laws that, piece by piece, reclaimed the right to vote for whites alone.
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Recent years have seen a more brazen tactic: passing laws that overturn the results of an election that Democrats won.
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The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament is responsible for passing laws in the Iraqi provinces governed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
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Just a few decades ago, after all, both sides of the aisle were passing laws that strengthened the death penalty.
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The Virginia bill comes as some other states are passing laws to roll back abortion restrictions or otherwise expand access.
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The largest pension fund in the country is divesting, and several states are passing laws to phase out private prisons.
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Europe has long been more proactive than other regions — including the United States — in passing laws that regulate the internet.
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Europe has long been more proactive than other regions — including the United States — in passing laws that regulate the internet.
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But I'm pleased to say that we're passing laws, we're changing conventions on an ongoing basis to change all that.
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Texas legislators responded, too, by passing laws that allow anyone with a concealed-carry license to bring firearms into churches.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, he's all about cutting taxes for the wealthy and passing laws that would help businesses, including large corporations.
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Enacting reforms by passing laws is always going to be preferable to relying on individual judges to make decisions like this.
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But some states are choosing to hold the line, passing laws to make sure cursive doesn't become a totally lost skill.
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They could have even considered passing laws related to immigration or abortion, issues that remain very important to the Republican base.
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Over the past five years, some states have become quite creative about passing laws that seem specifically designed to close abortion clinics.
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It's true that the GOP hasn't used the "nuclear option," as removing the filibuster is called, when it comes to passing laws.
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In 2015, El Salvador took a step to protect the LGBTQ community by passing laws that would penalize hate crimes more heavily.
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Christie argues PASPA can stop states from passing laws that legalize sports betting, but it can't require states to continue prohibiting it.
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State legislatures are passing laws to make daylight saving permanent, or get rid of it altogether, which is probably the same thing.
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The only way to break the power of the powerful is passing laws and reforms through the very institutions the powerful control.
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Tchen dismisses that notion that it's the government's responsibility to advocate for women by passing laws, pointing to its bleak track record.
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Officials also took on drunk driving by passing laws that raised the drinking age, and prioritizing police resources to catch drunk drivers.
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With concealed carry legal in most states and some passing laws legalizing campus carry, many educators worry this could become the new normal.
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If other energy sources get cheaper, or if congressional Democrats succeed in passing laws designed to limit carbon emissions, demand will fall faster.
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As Congress has grown incapable of passing laws involving even straightforward political trade-offs, power has flowed to the executive and judicial branches.
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"The notion that anything in the Constitution prevents States from passing laws prohibiting the dismembering of a living child is implausible," Thomas wrote.
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Context: New elections will prevent Netanyahu from passing laws giving himself immunity from three pending indictments for bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
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With banks caving in and jobs vanishing, FDR set to work passing laws and establishing new government bureaus to curb the economic suffering.
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Despite his firsthand efforts to help, environmentalists have criticized him for passing laws that encourage slash and burning to make room for farmland.
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The Supreme Court found in May that the federal government cannot prohibit states from passing laws they choose, in that case, legalizing gambling.
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"The notion that anything in the Constitution prevents states from passing laws prohibiting the dismembering of a living child is implausible," he wrote.
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At least 36 states considered dozens of bills related to sanctuary cities, with Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi and Texas passing laws opposed to them.
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"The notion that anything in the Constitution prevents states from passing laws prohibiting the dismembering of a living child is implausible," Thomas wrote.
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In congress it is commonplace for representatives to demand pork for their districts, and kickbacks from pork-related contracts, in exchange for passing laws.
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" Holder also said the GOP seeks to "brazenly assault the most fundamental right of our democracy, passing laws designed to stop people from voting.
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Wade is overturned, passing laws like these will always be a grand symbolic gesture but a giant waste of time and money for states.
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It prohibits local governments and universities from passing laws or regulations that limit cooperation with immigration enforcement officers or the enforcement of immigration laws.
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Rouhani's powerful hardline opponents argue that passing laws enabling Iran's compliance with FATF rules could hamper Iran's support for its allies, including Lebanons Hezbollah.
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The clock is ticking: This year is the most likely window for bipartisan legislation, as passing laws during the 2020 election year will be tough.
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In addition to parental leave, experts point to a growing number of states and municipalities that are passing laws governing sick leave and retirement plans.
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Through their electoral success in many federal states and the Bundesrat upper chamber of parliament, the Greens already have a major say in passing laws.
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And this summer, Morales made good on that promise by passing laws that allowed farmers to legally slash and burn more land for agricultural use.
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Illinois and Texas joined Louisiana this year in passing laws that will require high school seniors to fill out the FAFSA as a graduation requirement.
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But the battle continues: 23 states, mostly across the South, have adopted laws that ban its urban municipalities from passing laws to increase employee wages.
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As the opioid epidemic reached crisis proportions over the past few years, more than 30 states have responded by passing laws that restrict opioid prescribing.
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Apparently it is still a thing, to the point that some states, like New Jersey (and possibly Illinois, though not Colorado), are passing laws against it.
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Passing laws to put the buckling pension system on a sustainable footing is a key requirement for the next loan tranche from the International Monetary Fund.
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This could be achieved by passing laws that make future anti-corruption initiatives more difficult, or by replacing the people in charge of the Federal Police.
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But governing is not just about passing laws, it's about how our leaders conduct themselves — with integrity, accountability and values that reflect a respect for others.
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Ohio, Texas and Mississippi have been some of the most aggressive states in passing laws to restrict access to the procedure and strip funding from clinics.
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The movement has increasingly come under fire in the United States, with some 27 states passing laws that punish companies or individuals who support the boycott.
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We could respond to this tragedy by passing laws mandating that all bounce houses be made of bulletproof material, so children can take cover during shootings.
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Flanked by prosecutors, a visibly emotional Kovesi later hit out at politicians who are currently passing laws that critics say will make it harder to punish graft.
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States are passing laws to protect abortion rights, while activists seek state constitutional amendments to ensure women are protected in the event Roe versus Wade is overturned.
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"Sacramento has consistently been impacting things like local control and passing laws on issues that involve federal jurisdiction such as immigration," said Edgar, the Los Alamitos mayor.
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Voters are angered and outraged that six state legislatures, emboldened by Trump, have tried to ban abortion outright, passing laws that — thankfully — have yet to take effect.
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I do not believe in passing laws against B.D.S. — people can boycott whomever they want — but I do believe it is not a helpful movement at all.
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Some states, particularly those governed by Republicans, have sought to chip away at a woman's right to end a pregnancy by passing laws imposing a variety of restrictions.
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States like Texas insisted on the necessity of voter ID laws to "protect the integrity of elections," passing laws that disproportionately affect African-Americans, Latinos and poor people.
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Things may have ground to a halt in Congress over these past eight years, but that doesn't mean that legislators have stopped making new policy or passing laws.
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Some states, particularly those governed by Republicans, have sought to chip away at a woman's right to end a pregnancy by passing laws imposing a number of restrictions.
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Now, in 2019, Southern states are ramping up their attacks on abortion, with multiple states passing laws to ban abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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For the poet, democracy wasn't just a way of passing laws or a manner of organizing a government; democracy was a method of transcendence in its own right.
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I used to think that they meant it, but at some point I realized that threatening tech regulation is what American lawmakers generally do instead of passing laws.
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State legislatures with Republican majorities are passing laws they know will face legal challenge, hoping the Supreme Court will eventually decide to hear one that could overturn Roe.
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Celebrities are speaking out about their abortions in reaction to a recent rash of states passing laws severely restricting abortion access for millions of women and putting Roe v.
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They say Republican leaders in states such as Georgia have been purging voter rolls and passing laws that suppress voter turnout, particularly among people of color, something Republicans deny.
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Hellerstedt makes it harder for anti-abortion advocates to pursue a previous strategy of passing laws that restrict clinic operations, sometimes severely enough to drive them out of business.
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But the myth has been used to bar trans people from using the bathroom for their gender identity, with several states passing laws or considering bills to that effect.
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State legislatures across the country were passing laws that made it easier to try children as adults and that sometimes eliminated age as a mitigating factor in their sentences.
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Lucas has repeatedly referred to HSUS and animal rights activists as "terrorists" intent on "passing laws to ruin America" that deliberately impugn the small-time farmer's way of life.
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Founded in 27 as an advisory body to Hong Kong's colonial British governor, LegCo now functions as the city's parliament, scrutinizing bills and spending, approving appointments and passing laws.
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The violence stems from the ruling Colorado Party's decision to create an alternative Senate with the goal of passing laws that would allow Cartes to seek a second term.
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And in some cases, different levels of government loosened access to opioids after lobbying from drug companies — by passing laws that, for example, required insurers to cover the drugs.
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And state legislators can keep passing laws that incrementally curb reproductive rights, hoping to trigger a Supreme Court fight in front of a more sympathetic majority on the bench.
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This is by design, reflecting a pivot away from direct, national attacks on Roe to an under-the-radar strategy of quietly passing laws that gradually undermine our rights.
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More states are also passing laws that lump e-cigarettes in with traditional cigarettes, levying taxes on them and banning their use as part of local smoke-free rules.
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"While anti-choice politicians around the nation are passing laws to chip away at our rights, Maine is moving forward toward a more just and equitable state," she said.
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When his research came to the attention of anti-abortion advocates, states around the country started passing laws requiring doctors to tell patients that medication abortions could be reversed.
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"Lawmakers believe they can generate advancements in technology by passing laws that require those advancements in technology, like they'll come about if only the nerds worked harder," Harmon said.
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" In announcing the "trade mission" to California, Scott said Brown's "tax and spend administration has spent the past year passing laws that make it even harder for businesses to succeed.
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If we take action now -- by passing laws to facilitate our investments in, and use of, renewable energy -- we can improve the chances for 76% of those at-risk species.
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Dan Patrick (R) would prohibit local governments from passing laws relating to bathroom or locker room use, a preemption clause similar to the most controversial element of North Carolina's law.
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Other states beyond simply California, Vermont, and Colorado - among them New Jersey and Washington - have also joined in, passing laws on the use of retail data and biometric data, respectively.
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So a plea: It's gratifying to give heroic speeches thundering against fascism, but remember that what makes a difference in people's lives is winning elections, passing laws and approving judges.
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"Those officials say we are part of China's cultural heritage but when it comes to actually passing laws banning (those who reveal magic tricks) from the internet, nothing happens," he said.
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BEIRUT – A human rights watchdog says the Syrian government is passing laws to allow itself to seize private property, displace residents, and discourage refugees from returning to the war-battered country.
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Civil rights advocates were dismayed by last month's HB2 "compromise" that repealed the bathroom bill but also barred local jurisdictions from passing laws to protect LGBTQ residents from discrimination until 2020.
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The new proposed ballot measure would decriminalize marijuana offenses, allow licensed businesses to sell marijuana and forbid local jurisdictions from passing laws designed to prohibit the operation of marijuana-related businesses.
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Musk is basically taking the structure of the US Senate, where the filibuster creates a 60-vote supermajority for passing laws, and adding a provision that makes undoing existing laws easier.
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Jerry Brown The Justice Department is suing California for the second time in a month, once again accusing the state of unconstitutionally passing laws that interfere with the federal government's activities.
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Mr Modi has been smart in passing laws to help non-resident Indians, encouraging easier travel and tourism and setting up special offices in Delhi, the capital, to cater for them.
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Per his conversation with Rubio, it seems Paul realized passing laws was way too difficult, so he devised a five-point plan to help stop school shootings on a local level.
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Poland's government has been criticized for passing laws that weaken judicial checks and balances, while Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been accused of a crackdown on the country's free press.
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And, across the country, state politicians are chipping away at the right to access abortion, passing laws that put this safe, legal health care out of reach for millions of women.
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The island's financial problems are a source of division in Washington, where Democrats have demanded letting it restructure its debts through passing laws akin to U.S. bankruptcy protections, though possibly broader.
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Even best efforts to share cultural norms and communicate boundaries won't change everyone's behavior, just as passing laws doesn't stop all criminal activity and teaching good manners doesn't ensure universal civility.
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Some of the worst of these legislatures are passing laws that threaten a woman's right to make her own reproductive health decisions, blatantly undermining constitutional protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade.
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And any urge to be conciliatory was undermined when Republicans broke a democratic norm last year, by passing laws aimed at curtailing the power of the incoming governor after their candidate lost.
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With Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, the incoming president could potentially go even further, passing laws to close off the possibility of similar orders once he's out of office.
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After a year of slow-moving or unsuccessful attempts to block "sanctuary" jurisdictions from getting federal grants, Sessions is moving to stop them from passing laws that limit cooperation to begin with.
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The 14th Amendment's framers unquestionably approved measures like these, passing laws during the same era, like the Freedmen's Bureau Act, to give black Americans government assistance with food, clothing, jobs and education.
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In the letter, the attorneys general said AHPs "have a long and notorious history of fraud, mismanagement, and deception" and noted that Congress has spent decades passing laws to protect health consumers.
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The voluntary poll is non-binding but Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull immediately said he would fulfill a pledge to raise a bill in parliament with the aim of passing laws by Christmas.
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"[M]ore than 11 states across the Midwest and south have been passing laws that ban abortion procedures after six weeks — often before women even know they are pregnant," per the Washington Post.
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It was the Republican Party that tried to rig the election in their favour by passing laws aimed at depressing turnout among voters who prefer Democrats; the courts are now undoing those efforts.
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Instead of respecting that limitation, today's GOP legislators are taking it further—not just passing new laws, but passing laws that reduce the power of governors who won the support of the voters.
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The U.S. president's remark came in response to a reporter from the conservative Daily Caller, who asked whether he would consider passing laws to punish social media companies for alleged bias against conservatives.
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In an effort to revive shuttered main streets and empower mom-and-pop stores, a number of U.S. cities are passing laws to limit the rapid expansion of dollar stores in their neighborhoods.
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But the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a treaty that came into force in 1976, prohibits a country from passing laws that discriminate on the basis of religion or national origin.
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To begin with, the Constitution clearly implies certain things are to be done by majority vote, such as adopting the rules of each body, choosing a Speaker, and passing laws in each house.
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The announcement comes as conservative states across the country are passing laws in the hopes of prompting the top court to review its abortion precedents included the landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.
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Both Kingston and Iwahara said that the government needs to do more to invest in its aim of having more women in the work force — that includes passing laws and making companies follow them.
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That, in turn, is inconsistent with our baseline separation of powers principles, where Congress guides agencies by passing laws and appropriating budgets, and the president makes sure that they are executing on their missions.
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"This agreement is especially important because whenever we can resolve issues that concern us without passing laws, everybody wins," Joani Woelfel, the CEO of the Far West Equipment Dealers Association, said in a statement.
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In North Carolina, the state general assembly enacted a "preemptive law" in 2013 that prohibits cities like Durham from passing laws to increase the minimum wage above the state minimum of $7.25 per hour.
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Last month, the EU began an unprecedented inquiry into whether the PiS government has breached EU rule-of-law standards by passing laws that critics said rein in the constitutional court and public media.
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Like Memphis, Nashville is a blue dot in the red sea of Tennessee, and the state legislature's highest priority seems to be passing laws that undercut liberal policies enacted by its two largest cities.
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When the Justice Department refuses to take states to court for passing laws that restrict the ability of black or Latino citizens to vote, it makes it harder for citizens to participate in democracy.
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As the federal government stands still on workplace issues, states and cities are passing laws requiring vacations, sick pay and higher wages, not to mention stepping up long-needed rules concerning discrimination and harassment.
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If Bannon's first goal isn't passing laws but actually wresting control of the Republican Party from the Republican leadership, then the sweeping changes Democrats fear and Republicans dream of may not come to pass.
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And then – behind closed doors, with a wink and a nod – the activists and regulators concoct a settlement agreement that furthers activists' (and regulators') radical goals that go beyond what Congress authorized in passing laws.
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The Democratic Party can't protect the public merely by passing laws establishing regulatory agencies: when a Democrat isn't in the White House, Republican presidents can seriously damage enforcement even if they can't get legislation repealed.
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Where my grandfather's childhood dog would have always lived outside (and even Snoopy lived in a dog house), today state and local governments are passing laws that make such a thing illegal in extreme temperatures.
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The House passed a bill last summer that would pre-empt states from passing laws on labeling and establish a voluntary federal system instead, an approach similar to the bill that failed in the Senate.
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Whether we're marching with coat-hanger posters or passing laws that outlaw the procedure earlier and earlier, we fight over abortion in the United States as if we know what will happen if it's banned.
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They might have discouraged families like mine from pursuing a better life in America while simultaneously denying our contribution to its future through educating students, treating veterans, and passing laws in the halls of Congress.
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As it stands now, the administration is escalating its efforts to prevent "sanctuary cities" from receiving federal grants and moving to stop states from passing laws that limit cooperation with federal immigration agents to begin with.
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Espinosa listed signs of "worldwide momentum" including that "solar power capacity globally grew 50 percent in 2016 led by the United States and China" and that ever more governments were passing laws to curb global warming.
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He is, understandably, affronted by the government's apparent obsession with preventing the return of property to a law-abiding Indian citizen, to the point of passing laws that are very likely to be overturned as unconstitutional.
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More and more countries around the world, including Italy, Morocco, and Nicaragua, are now passing laws that will create a new generation of skilled green energy jobs in a way that we have never seen before.
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Legislators, privacy advocates, and drone enthusiasts have failed to find any sort of middle ground when it comes to passing laws that would protect privacy without destroying the drone industry or trampling on the First Amendment.
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Gardner said that while Attorney General William Barr did not endorse his bill and opposes legalization, he "recognized the reality that it's here," with 47 states passing laws allowing the sale of marijuana or marijuana products.
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Democratic state legislators in New York and Nevada are passing laws that protect a woman's right to choose, while Republican state legislators in Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri and Georgia are actively trying to take that right away.
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Supporters of the Pallone-Shalala bill argue that it does not penalize consumers for buying illegal products, but skeptics say that there is nothing to stop states from passing laws that would end up targeting them.
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For example, Ragsdale said, her organization has been flooded with calls since states began passing laws that limit access to abortion, such as the "fetal heartbeat" laws that have recently been challenged in Missouri and Ohio.
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But as caretaker chancellor, Merkel is voting at EU summits, parliament is passing laws required by international mandates, local authorities are wading through asylum applications and a bright outlook in Europe's biggest economy is buoying the mood.
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Beyond that, political leaders can address the current crisis by increasing funding for health departments that are best positioned to combat rampant misinformation, and by passing laws to make it harder for parents to skip crucial shots.
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Probably. Regardless whether the proposals were sound, - Italy's record in passing laws is no worse than most - or whether Renzi needed to raise the stakes so high is largely irrelevant to market participants in the shorter term.
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The decision comes as states across the country are passing laws heavily restricting a woman's choice to terminate a pregnancy, including one in Ohio that bans abortion once a heartbeat is detected, which is usually around six weeks.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) - South Africa must average economic growth of 7.2 percent to meet its development targets, the World Bank said on Wednesday, and could achieve this by passing laws that encouraged competition and decreased cartel activity.
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"What we've encountered is that Congress is passing laws requiring the VA to come into compliance, and the VA is incapable," a senior Democratic aide, who asked to remain anonymous to speak freely about the matter, told me.
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And passing laws that keep marijuana a small-craft business while preventing consolidation could make it a model for an economy where gains are broadly shared, a welcome contrast in an era of seemingly relentless march toward monopoly.
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But actually, you usually learn that you are no longer living in a democracy not because The Government Is Taking Away Your Rights, or passing laws that you oppose, or because there is a coup or a quisling.
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By 5-3, the Court made clear it's time for politicians to stop passing laws that harm women and limit access to safe and legal abortion, and instead respect women's right to freely make their own decisions about pregnancy.
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During his speech to the California Peace Officers' Association, Sessions said that the state of California had been "actively obstructing federal law enforcement" by passing laws requiring local law enforcement to inspect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers.
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Though the National Assembly is tasked with passing laws, its decisions must be approved by the Senate, or upper house of parliament, which consists of 104 members who are elected by the lower house and the four provincial assemblies.
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She also notes that buying flavored tobacco products online often occurs without having to present an ID. While other cities are passing laws to reduce access to flavored tobacco, none have a full ban on all flavored tobacco products.
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Meanwhile, our elected congressional representatives bask in the negativity of the day, hiding behind self-righteous angry talk to avoid actually working comprehensively on solutions and passing laws that seek to make our nation stronger, better and more unified.
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Now, "becoming a 'Volksdeutsch' " describes Polish citizens who ask the European Union to investigate the government's constitutional violations — for example, denying the force of law to decisions of the Constitutional Tribunal and passing laws that abolish an independent judiciary.
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We also need to start passing laws that directly regulate the use of computational inference: What will we allow to be inferred, and under what conditions, and subject to what kinds of accountability, disclosure, controls and penalties for misuse?
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The Supreme Court ruling in question found that the federal government could not prohibit states from passing laws they choose, which Leinenweber also noted in his opinion arrived between the time he had considered the case preliminarily and now.
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In a 2007 fundraising mailer for his legal fund, Pendley referred to undocumented immigrants as "a cancer" while praising Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and Valley Park, Missouri, for passing laws restricting undocumented immigrants from renting houses or being hired by local businesses.
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"There has been more attention on this issue in the last two years, and that has helped drive awareness and interest and passing laws," said Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, which backed the SHIELD Act.
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Heavily Democratic states, like New York and California, are also passing laws to soften the blow, by insisting that unions are given contact information for new workers and strictly limiting the time period in which employees could revoke their membership.
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Through the ruling, Virginia said that if a particular state or public entity (like GMU) believes it has an interest in preventing BDSM activity or passing laws that criminalize the practice, they can, and those prosecuted now have no legal recourse.
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Given the difficulties Congress has had in passing laws this year, Williams, in comments following a speech in Salt Lake City, said he is "losing confidence" that any tax reform will be passed in the next six months or so.
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Gender equality, especially in the LGBTQ community, is one of the top civil rights issues of our day, and we need our political leaders to act to prevent states from passing laws that specifically allow discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta found that Congress was "not engaged in a fishing expedition" for the President's financial records when it subpoenaed Mazars and said that documents obtained might assist Congress in passing laws and performing other core functions.
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With a lack of majority government since 2017, rivals had more power to challenge the ruling Conservatives' plans and the Speaker took an increasingly key role in the process of debating Brexit and passing laws needed to implement, or delay, it.
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Mehta said in Monday's ruling that the committee "has shown that it is not engaged in a pure fishing expedition for the President's financial records" and that the Mazars documents might assist Congress in passing laws and performing other core functions.
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Currently, six states in the US have only one abortion clinic, including Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia — and more and more states are passing laws that make it harder for women to access abortion, sending these already-swamped volunteer groups into overdrive.
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Constitutional wonks will be quick to note the U.S. is not a "direct," but rather a "representative democracy" -- meaning there is, be it in electing presidents or passing laws, a legally enshrined buffer between the will of the people and political outcomes.
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Renewable energy costs are falling around the globe, but the Philippines, up to now, has shown few signs of moving away from coal, despite ratifying the Paris Agreement to curb climate change and passing laws pushing for a shift to renewable energy.
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State HIV criminal laws stem from a federal initiative in 22017 under the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act, which made funding for AIDS treatment and care contingent on states passing laws to prosecute individuals who knowingly exposed someone to HIV.
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The lira stood at 3.0610 at 0617 GMT, against 3.0970 in late trade on Wednesday after Erdogan's announcement of the state of emergency, which enables the government to circumvent parliament in passing laws and if necessary to limit basic freedoms and rights.
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By passing laws that will force transparency and accountability among federal agencies, Republicans can ensure that, no matter who wins the Oval Office in 85033 or 2024, bureaucrats will be held accountable for the rules they make and the money they spend.
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So far, only Virginia, Texas, and New York have addressed this issue, passing laws that do not allow anyone who is a legal child to get married (though a minor who has been emancipated and given the full rights of an adult can).
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" The study concludes by recommending that states stop passing laws that require providers to discuss abortion reversal with patients: For now, the treatment remains experimental and "and should be offered only in institutional review board–approved human clinical trials to ensure proper oversight.
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Similarly, after passing laws in 2001 and 2003 authorizing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Congress for years refused to weigh in again as presidents extended military operations to the Islamic State and other militants in Syria, Pakistan, North Africa, Somalia and Yemen.
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" Most states are not actively passing laws on those subjects just yet, Myrick continued, but with a more conservative Supreme Court, "states might feel emboldened to pass restrictions that they haven't felt they had [the] ability to in the past, like access to contraception.
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Instead, it focused almost entirely on criminalizing addiction, passing laws to lock up people who use drugs and drug dealers through exorbitant prison sentences, such as mandatory minimums — an approach that many policymakers, including some Republicans, now consider a mistake and are looking to undo.
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For years, Republicans, with their hands on the levers in state legislatures and governors' mansions, have made it incredibly hard for Democrats to make gains in Congress, redrawing congressional boundaries to favor Republicans and passing laws that make it harder for Americans to vote.
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Even though some of the most conservative states are passing laws legalizing medical weed, marijuana is still a Schedule I controlled substance on a federal level, along with heroin and ecstasy, which can make users ineligible for programs like rental assistance or public housing.
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Pretending they are trying to "protect women," states like Missouri and North Carolina have enacted 72-hour waiting periods and others, like Iowa and soon Ohio, are passing laws outright banning abortions after six weeks, when many women don't even know that they are pregnant.
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"Mayor Bloomberg is a hero to the gun safety movement, and he has committed his political career to fighting the NRA, passing laws and saving lives," Taylor Maxwell, a spokesperson for Everytown and Moms Demand Action, said recently, before Bloomberg's official presidential announcement on Sunday.
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The Haskell Street fight shows why passing laws is one thing and building is another, but also gives a glimpse of what the denser neighborhoods of the future might look like — and why lots of little buildings are more important than a few skyscrapers.
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But it's not just about Trump — women candidates around the country say they are fed up with men in Congress and in statehouses around the country passing laws on women's issues and other key policy areas, and decided they needed to get politically involved themselves.
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Bosses and the politicians supporting them (from both major parties) attacked collective bargaining, tried to privatize anything that wasn't nailed to the floor (for instance by passing laws that began the process of privatizing public housing in the '70s), and steadily eroded the social safety net.
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The surprising decision has ramifications well beyond Connecticut: Rather than passing laws banning the sale of firearms, the future of gun control might look like something like this, where victims attempt—with varying degrees of success—to sue the shit out of the people who make them.
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If the leadership can give women more say by giving them seats in the government or by passing laws in favor of their rights, they will be on track to gaining their trust and to eventually being able to defeat Boko Haram as a united country.
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After over two weeks of talks and turmoil sparked by May's failure to win a majority in a June 8 snap election, she now has the parliamentary numbers to pass a budget and a better chance of passing laws to take Britain out of the European Union.
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Many countries, including Egypt, have adopted a technocratic approach to information control: by passing laws (and in China's case, implementing sophisticated censorship systems) that regulate online speech, governments can not only clamp down on specific threats, they create a broader chilling effect that encourages self-censorship.
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Barr's first stint as Attorney General, in the early nineteen-nineties, came at a time when the country was in a panic about rising crime, and both parties were complicit in passing laws, all supported by Barr, that put too many people in prison for too long.
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It is because of Justice Kavanaugh, and the conservative majority he cemented on the Supreme Court, that legislators in states like Alabama, Georgia and Missouri are passing laws that explicitly violate Roe: They believe they have the votes now, for the first time, to overturn it.
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Lutsenko said that pressure from Ukrainian anti-corruption groups and from the U.S., the E.U., and the International Monetary Fund to act fast resulted in Poroshenko and his allies passing laws that gave more power and independence to NABU than they really wanted it to have.
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association decided Tuesday that North Carolina can remain a host for upcoming championship games days after the state partially repealed its anti-transgender bathroom bill in exchange for barring local governments from passing laws to protect LGBTQ residents from discrimination until 23.
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association decided Tuesday that North Carolina can remain a host for upcoming championship games days after the state partially repealed its anti-transgender bathroom bill in exchange for barring local governments from passing laws to protect LGBTQ residents from discrimination until 2020.
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The voter ID debate essentially involves Republicans whipping themselves into a panic over a problem that doesn't meaningfully affect their chances of winning elections, and then passing laws that whip Democrats into a panic over a problem that also doesn't meaningfully affect their chances of winning elections.
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If Sessions gets sacked or is forced to resign, Republicans in Congress could turn against Trump by refusing to get on board with his agenda wish list, like tax reform, or passing laws that limit his power, like the House did regarding Russia sanctions earlier this week.
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Texas Last month, two bills were introduced in the Lone Star State regarding transgender bathroom use: One, restricting the use of bathrooms to the sex listed on a person's birth certificate, and the second, outlawing unisex bathrooms and prohibiting cities from passing laws that would eliminate these restrictions.
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SYDNEY, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state has proposed passing laws to lock in a renewable power target of 13 percent by 2025, looking to spur investment in electricity sources such as solar and wind even as the national government wrangles over energy policy beyond 2020.
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Per CNN pollster Jennifer Agiesta, 72% in a March CNN/ORC poll said they wanted Trump to find bipartisan compromise rather than simply passing laws he thinks are right but have zero Democratic support; almost six in ten Republicans preferred Trump seek bipartisan compromise versus going it alone.
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But the case against Rossello provides a rare look into the murky world of private gun sales in Florida, a state with a storied history of passing laws that protect firearm owners and prop up gun manufacturers amid a growing national conversation about mass shootings and gun violence.
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But if anti-abortion campaigners truly want to decrease the numbers of abortions, rather than passing laws designed to drive up the costs of abortion, they would do far better to invest in the kinds of economic supports that make becoming a parent a realistic possibility for struggling women.
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Andrew Cuomo, began passing laws to help fight the spread of the coronavirus in New York State, he announced a law named after his mother: "Matilda's Law" provides protection for New Yorkers over the age of 70, in addition to those with compromised immune systems and underlying diseases.
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Since the Great Recession, the opioid epidemic coincided with a criminal justice reform effort that largely began before the current drug crisis was well-known in the mainstream — with dozens of states passing laws loosening their prison sentences, particularly for nonviolent drug offenses, to save money on prison spending.
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But as the Koch Foundation has stepped increasingly into that sphere, too, it's been careful to fund academic projects that attract little controversy — steering clear of, and even condemning, more fringe right-wing tactics like passing laws that punish protesting speakers or encouraging students to film confrontations with their professors.
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"After strong advocacy from civil society, the reauthorization of the TVPRA includes important provisions related to ensuring that countries are rated on the impact of their anti-trafficking efforts in the annual TIP report Tier Rankings, and not just passing laws or policies," Neha Misra of the Solidarity Center, an advocacy group, said.
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But conservatives have balked: As blue cities have responded to Federal gridlock by experimenting with progressive policies at the municipal level, red states have intervened, passing laws to interdict local efforts on topics like the minimum wage, on allowing transgender people to choose the bathroom they want to use, and other subjects.
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I'm walking out because it is my right and duty to protest to spread the message that something must be done, whether that is implementing more safety measures at schools, passing laws that make obtaining guns more difficult, or banning guns altogether, we simply cannot standby and wait for others to act.
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That includes: mandating routine pregnancy statistics data collection by a federal agency; formalizing pregnancy health care standards in institutions of incarceration with mandatory accreditation and oversight, including assurance that women can access abortion; and passing laws prohibiting solitary confinement and shackles during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period, with trainings to ensure compliance.
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But the damage he can do is more than rhetorical: dismantling the (already attenuated) asylum system, whether by passing laws or simply removing anyone who knows how it's supposed to work, is a major step towards blocking all forms of migration to the United States by any but the wealthiest and most privileged few.
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Finally, at a time when the right to vote is under siege – when Republicans brazenly assault the most fundamental right of our democracy – passing laws designed to stop people from voting, while closing locations in minority neighborhoods where people get the documents they need to vote – we need a president sensitive to these echoes of Jim Crow.
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By investing heavily in grassroots state-based campaigns, Everytown and their gun safety allies have blocked the NRA on multiple fronts — from stymying concealed carry reciprocity and preventing guns from being allowed on campuses and in most K-12 schools, to passing laws in 85033 states and Washington D.C. to avert domestic abusers from owning guns.
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And so even though I'm the sitting congressman, even though I'm the one who's passing laws, even though my bills are going to the floor, one this past week, one this coming week, you guys write about the story about this ex-con who's — actually, he's not an ex-con, he's still a convict, you're always a convict — that's trying to come back.
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"All these breakdowns in government show you why so many people -- millions of people across the country -- want to have the right to defend themselves, and so passing laws that take away the rights of law abiding gun owners, that is something that concerns a lot of us because we see failures that shouldn't have happened, that should have stopped this from happening."
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The politicians pushing these laws are following the anti-abortion playbook, passing laws in the hopes that with two new Supreme Court justices appointed by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, the Supreme Court will dismantle 45 years of precedent and take the extraordinary step of explicitly eliminating a fundamental constitutional right.
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You have to hope lawmakers are at least collectively not so stupid as to end up passing laws that attempt to outlaw math — even if individual politicians persist in the fantastical belief that the general public's security can be enhanced by weakening, er, the general public's security… Over in the U.K., draft legislation currently before parliament, aiming to expand intelligence and law enforcement agencies' surveillance capabilities, contains some weasel words on encryption — with a clause that comms providers should be able to "remove electronic protection" and provide legible user data in response to a lawful intercept warrant.
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