However, there were plenty of centrist Democrats who voiced concerns about CLASS while the legislation was being drafted.
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At the last general election Labour made pledges on cutting primary school class sizes, introducing legislation for a Welsh Assembly in the first year, cutting NHS waiting lists by an extra 100, 000, getting 250, 000 under-25s off benefit and into work (around 13, 000 in Wales), and setting tough rules for government spending and borrowing.
The commission was created in January as part of the same legislation that repealed the CLASS Act.
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Both signed into law this spring legislation creating a new class of corporations accountable to serve society as well as shareholders.
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Worse yet, privacy groups also point out that the bill would preclude any state-level legislation and would restrict privacy class-action lawsuits.
He called for tobacco legislation to fund proposed initiatives to modernize schools and reduce class sizes.
Is this the most important piece of domestic legislation in terms of giving a break to hardworking middle class families out there since Medicare?
Legislation passed two years ago that was designed to prevent class-action abuse has reduced the number of those types of cases filed in state courts, but it also seems to have placed unforeseen strains on the federal court system because the law was drafted so poorly, experts say.
Without any new legislation, that is, the AMT burden for middle-class taxpayers is in for a huge expansion between 2005 and 2006.
The first major piece of legislation, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act enacted in 1995, specifically targeted securities cases while the Class Action Fairness Act, passed some years later, placed broader obstacles before potential plaintiffs.
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And on the domestic level, the measure of success of a government and a country was not this particular piece of legislation or that specific reform but whether it had provided successively rising standards of living for its broad middle class.
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