Crowdfunder offers a blend of donation-based and investment crowdfunding from individuals and angel investors, and was a leading participant in the JOBS Act legislation.
The act is legislation designed to make it easier for young people to start a business, which coincides with the Gen-Y Capital Partners mission.
Mentioned above, the Communications Decency Act is legislation that Congress passed to protect the free flow of information online by stating that websites could not be sued for carrying defamatory material.
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Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, blamed Congress for mandating the annual health pre-payments in 2006, but suggested lawmakers should wait to act on legislation until next year.
The Conservatives have been strongly critical of the Human Rights Act - legislation which introduced into British law the principles of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights - of which Britain was one of the authors.
Romney also said he was "taking a look" at Rubio's recent proposal for a conservative alternative to the DREAM Act, legislation that would grant citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants who have been brought to the United States illegally as children.
The whole JOBS Act and crowdfunding legislation has ample numbers of supporters and detractors.
The core principle of America's 1984 National Organ Transplant Act and the legislation of other nations: no meat markets.
The family also have been advocates for the so-called Unborn Victims of Violence Act, state legislation that would create a fetal homicide law in North Carolina.
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The initiative sidesteps a years-long stalemate in Congress over the Dream Act, draft legislation designed to legalize undocumented young people that has been ensnared in a broader debate about immigration overhaul.
It looks like we may finally get a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, landmark legislation that has helped lead to a 67 percent decrease in the rate of intimate partner violence since it was first authorized.
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Now called the DRIVE Act, this legislation is expected to be resubmitted this Thursday by such leading lights as Senators Joe Lieberman, Sam Brownback, Evan Bayh and Norm Coleman and Representatives Eliot Engel, Jim Saxton, Mike Ross and Jack Kingston.
That this legislation will become law, however, is far from certain, and it is of critical importance that the American people convey to their elected representatives their strong opposition to global taxes so that the Senate may act on this legislation at the earliest possible time.
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But they said the overall thrust had taken shape, so much so that Bush aides were briefing key lawmakers Wednesday, saying it was the president's desire for Congress to quickly act on the legislation and send it to the White House for his signature by the end of next week.
Long ago, even when we were talking about the Recovery Act just as legislation, we always said that it was never going to -- it was never the size and scope of the output removed from the economy because of the recession -- it was never going to totally fill that hole.
She said the Silk Report's recommendations had very complex implications well beyond borders of Wales, some of which could be implemented relatively quickly without legislation while others required a substantial rewriting of the Government of Wales Act or new Treasury legislation.
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Many consider the Voting Rights Act the most effective legislation of the civil-rights era, and even conservative justices acknowledged its historic role.
Scalia was on the losing side of the ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act, the sweeping legislation championed by President Barack Obama.
Firstly, the constitution is reserved to Westminster under Schedule Five of the Scotland Act 1998, the legislation which created the Scottish Parliament.
We are currently looking at options as to how to take this forward with due reference to Data Protection Act and human rights legislation.
Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have been calling for Congress to act now on comprehensive legislation to deal with cyberthreats.
We are also thrilled that Congress held the line and maintained protections for battered immigrants and took the important step of also reauthorizing the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in this same legislation.
You can certainly either speak directly with people on Capitol Hill or have your colleagues up there do that to find out what their assessments are about how long it would take Congress to act on certain possible legislation.
In a paper released today, entitled Veto Shmeeto: Bush Should Sign the New Export Administration Act, the Center provides a qualified endorsement of this legislation, the Export Administration Act Amendments of 1990, and most of its revisions of current U.S. export control laws.
Because while there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of evil, if there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there is even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try.
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And I indicated that the American people need Congress to act on this piece of legislation.
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The White House also knows BP is currently operating under the Oil Pollution Act, a piece of legislation passed in 1990 by a Democratic Congress.
Andiola is president and founder of the Arizona DREAM Act Coalition, which supports legislation to allow the children of undocumented migrants to attain documented status.
Ministers are very careful to avoid using this kind of shorthand - it's almost certain that had they wanted to use such language in the legislation, the Act would have had a far harder time.
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