Renewable energy advocates have been trying for months to include these provisions in legislation--notably last year's energy bill--to no avail.
He said it was now time for the government to act, calling for his bill - to put the motion into law - to be given a "fair hearing".
From international money transfer to bill-pay to check cashing and prepaid, Walmart has been a pioneer of financial services for the emerging middle class.
Campaign finance reform was derailed in the House on Thursday when lawmakers shelved consideration of the Shays-Meehan bill -- similar to the McCain-Feingold legislation passed by the Senate -- through a procedural vote.
Then it's the Public Bodies Bill - the bill to enable the promised bonfire of the quangos, which was heavily amended in the Lords - watch out for a row over whether the Government wants to reinstate plans to axe the Chief Coroner, and the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales and other bodies which were earmarked for abolition, but reprieved by Their Lordships.
Ministers say they want to end the practice of wealthy people minimising their tax bill - sometimes to zero - by donating to charity.
It may seem to be somewhat of a political oddity, but at this point the main barrier to passing a Democrat-sponsored bill to raise the minimum wage seems to be--of all people--Democrats.
Indeed, using more sophisticated means, including comparing T-bill rates to interest on commercial paper, the authors conclude that default led to a persistent increase in T-bill rates and, therefore, higher borrowing costs for the federal government.
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Olympia Snowe -- the lone Republican to vote for the Finance Committee bill -- has expressed strong opposition to a public option.
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He has co-sponsored a bill to create a blue-ribbon commission to report on America's prisons.
Labour left-winger Ken Livingstone came eighth in the ballot and plans to try to bring in a bill to ban fox-hunting, similar to Mike Fosters bill which failed last year.
Mr Burnham said he believed the bill - said to be proposing the biggest shake-up since the founding of the NHS in 1948 - would not be passed.
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The House passed the bill 234-to-190 on Tuesday.
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Then peers have their first debate on the Succession to the Crown Bill - the measure to allow princesses to inherit the throne if they're older than their brother princes, and remove some of the restrictions on members of the royal family marrying Roman Catholics.
"We're going to do everything we can to repeal the bill, to delay the bill, to de-fund the bill, " Republican Congressman Eric Cantor said over the summer.
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The state of Kentucky--there was a bill to try to do that--Senator Brownback of the United States Senate suggested that perhaps we should try to limit the number of embryos created.
During the contentious 2008 financial bailout bill -- commonly referred to as TARP -- McConnell and Reid worked hard to get a compromise bill passed despite tough opposition from both sides of the aisle.
The idea isn't totally new--everyone from Gingrich to Bill Bennett to the self-anointed compassion queen Arianna Huffington has tried to peddle it.
The wily Ken Clarke is leading for the government - because, critics say, his liberal credentials could be deployed to persuade some opponents of the bill not to rebel - and can be expected to have some concessions to offer.
Book-to-bill in the quarter was 1.33, which the company noted was the highest in two years.
Cypress said Q4 book-to-bill of 0.88, up sequentially in every division for the first time all year.
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And he adds that book-to-bill in the first few weeks of January has been running at about .99.
Still, he concedes there are signs that the semiconductor industry's key inventory measure, the book-to-bill ratio, has bottomed out.
Everything looked pretty rosy in terms of earnings estimates, book-to-bill ratios, etc.
The book-to-bill ratio for printed circuit boards was 1.02 in June, up from 1.0 in May and 0.97 in April, according to IPC, an industry trade association.
Our book-to-bill ratio, as measured by end customer bookings, was above one and our OEM opening backlog for shipment in the third quarter increased from the prior quarter, indicating continued growth in demand for our products.
Somewhat after the event the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee - Cleggwatch - will be vetting the appointees to the UK Bill of Rights Commission - the government commission that is to investigate the case for a British Bill of Rights.
Majority rules would have also opened the bill to pro-gun amendments that were likely to pass.
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