Advocates for the bill point to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that show providing paid sick leave in the New York metro region currently costs 39 cents per hour worked.
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It would permit Senate Democrats to kill the reconciliation bill on a point of order.
Funding the Defense Department and passing an energy bill at this point is up in the air.
As usual proceeding will be dominated by Christopher Chope, the Conservative usual suspect who has mastered the mystic arts of the backbench bill to the point where he has brought dozens of them to the floor of the House.
Senate bill is not explicit on this point, though floor statements suggest the Senate bill will also exempt such software.
Unbeaten Irish fighters Paul McCloskey and Andy Lee will also be on the Point Depot bill.
On a standard chart the plot point for Bill Gates looks like Pluto's orbit.
But Gorton, sponsor of that bill, said the bill was a starting point for further discussions with the White House.
His prominent role in the New Labour roadshows, and his inclusion in the ministerial team that met Bill Clinton prove the point.
The immigration bill, the larger point of which is to boost border security and provide a path to citizenship for 11 million people living illegally in the U.S., would impose steep fees for companies such as Indian outsourcers that have more than half their U.S. staff on the permits and also require them to pay higher salaries.
While he agreed "wholeheartedly" with Lady Williams's point, the bill already contained "robust" arrangements in this regard.
He has just written a new 10-point immigration reform bill that he plans to introduce any day now.
Bill Gross made a big point of dumping all his Treasury positions some months ago and predicting calamity, only to come sheepishly back into the market recently.
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The point is the bill is so over broad and so badly written that it's going to impact all kinds of things that, you know, don't have anything to do with stopping piracy.
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This morning he said that while there are many good things in the bill, there comes a point when there are enough bad things that he would -- that would lead him to oppose it.
Worse yet, privacy groups also point out that the bill would preclude any state-level legislation and would restrict privacy class-action lawsuits.
Scottish Green MSP Patrick Harvie said the bill was a "worthwhile starting point" but warned there were still too many loopholes and too much vague language.
"Eight senators from seven states have worked on this bill to serve as a starting point for discussion about fixing our broken immigration system, " Rubio said.
His "Altro Canto 1" (2006), a 10-part dance to selections of 17th-century music by Claudio Monteverdi, Biagio Marini and Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, which opened the Joyce bill, was a case in point.
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No labour bill has emerged, but both sides point to fewer strikes as evidence of change.
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Still, the Washington Post does make a point in noticing that the bill contains open-ended language.
But Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Sunday night that the "budget repair" bill can not be amended at this point.
Some folks are outraged, too, by Mr Obama's rumoured selection of Dennis Ross, a veteran of Bill Clinton's administration, as his point man on Iran.
Opponents of the bill warn of an avalanche of lawsuits and point out that premiums have already been escalating for years because of malpractice suits against doctors.
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