Congress, for its part, is backing a bill that will ease or abolish trade restrictions for 48 African countries.
Congressional Democrats are backing a bill to mandate a nationwide data base to automatically register driver's license holders or recipients of government benefits.
Tony Knowles, Alaska's governor, is backing a bill that would give the state the same regulatory powers over cruise ships that it has over supposedly dirtier industries such as oil.
President Obama has supported carbon controls, backing a 2009 House bill that relied on cap-and-trade.
To that end, Tesla is backing a state legislative bill that would change the franchise laws to make it easier to operate factory-owned dealerships and service centers.
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But although the government is will not take any direct action on fox hunting, Home Secretary Jack Straw has said the government will give its backing to a backbench bill on this issue.
The Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill is a private member's bill which has gained the backing of the government.
To get a vote on that, the lead sponsor of a bill, with the backing of six other members, must make the request in writing.
In 2006, Ms. Powell Jobs backed an effort led by College Track students to collect signatures backing passage of the Dream Act, a federal bill to put an estimated two million young people on a path to citizenship.
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Khan, 36, started Khan Academy in a closet at his home in Silicon Valley, but with backing from the likes of Bill Gates and venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife Ann, has expanded into a 36-person company serving 10 million students around the world with free video talks on the Internet explaining everything from calculus to chemistry.
To combat them, the association is backing another bill, the Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act (S.1192), which calls for a five-year moratorium on new taxes on wireless service, at both the state and local level.
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