Given the urgency, the emergency bill will doubtless have to be rammed through before Parliament rises for the Summer, on July 19, so something in the current programme, which includes the Finance Bill, which enacts the Budget, an Opposition Day and the polishing off of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, will have to be ditched.
The Lords, meanwhile have Third Reading debates on the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill and the Postal Services Bill.
Constitutional experts told a committee of MPs examining the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill that four years would be better.
On Wednesday it's more Lords amendments being considered by the Commons - this time on the Fixed Term parliaments Bill, which, again, was heavily amended in the Upper House.
To avoid allowing a "zombie government" to stagger on for years, unable to muster a majority to pass any new laws, the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, says an election will be called 14 days after a lost confidence vote if no alternative government is able to show they have the confidence of MPs.
The Government is already faced with the need to find time to attempt to reverse unwelcome changes made by the Lords to the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, the European Union Bill, and no doubt, in due course, the Localism Bill and the Welfare Reform Bill as well.
The developments coincided with congressional passage during the day of a follow-up bill that fixed a stenographic error in legislation that cleared late last week.
It said it was "unconvinced" by the arguments for introducing fixed term Parliaments, claiming the bill owed "more to short term considerations than to a mature assessment of enduring constitutional principles or sustained public demand".
Bill Gross, a fixed-income champion at Pimco, an American asset-management firm, predicted last September that bond returns will outstrip equities until share prices fall to their fair value, that is, until the Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 5, 000 rather than today's 8, 000-odd.
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While Labour supports the idea of fixed term Parliaments, it claims the bill in its current form "does not stand up to scrutiny".
Many fixed line operators are integrating wireless with their traditional phone services, selling the service to consumers with the convenience of having one device and one bill for both mobile and fixed line calls.
The system highlights easily fixed mistakes lurking in a multimillion-dollar cellular bill.
Many people, such as bond-market guru Bill Gross, the managing director of fixed-income manager PIMCO, have said that part of the blame in the mortgage crisis lies with the rating agencies who gave mortgage securities high markets.
The NAR also has supported a Senate bill that would offer subprime borrowers an alternative by expanding availability of fixed-rate loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration.
Willie Clarke from Sinn Fein said the bill transferred a huge responsibility on local councils and the increase in fixed penalties would help offset the increased costs.
Dick Durbin, backed by a strong bipartisan majority, added a provision to the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill to reform debit card swipe fees, which have long been fixed by Mastercard and Visa and hidden from consumers, who get stuck paying the resulting higher prices.
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In this recent Jordan re-appreciation, sports fans did what sports fans do, which was argue about where Jordan ranks among the all-time best, and in a lot of those conversations Michael Jordan was fixed at No. 1, ahead of legendary names like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell and Magic and Larry.
In February, Colorado lawmakers passed a bill that reduced the pension system's cost-of-living adjustment from a fixed 3.5% a year to a maximum of 2% but possibly less for current and future retirees.
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