Indiana's Republican-controlled legislature passed legislation Friday that calls for the state board of education to hold hearings on the standards and reconsider its 2010 decision to adopt them.
The biggest question mark, perhaps, is whether the Republican-controlled House would pass legislation granting a path to citizenship to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
The Republican-controlled House passed the legislation last week.
If a similar plan is indeed being worked out behind the scenes in Wisconsin that would fit the pattern of numerous Tea-Party controlled states enacting strikingly similar legislation all at the same time across the country.
Republicans in the GOP-controlled House twice last year passed legislation that would have shifted the defense portion of the cuts elsewhere in the federal budget, most notably cuts to the food-stamp program and a requirement forcing federal employees to contribute more to their retirement savings.
Bush on Tuesday vetoed legislation passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress that would continue to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but set a timeline for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq.
How will that legislation get through the Republican-controlled Congress?
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Sadly, the Republican controlled Congress has failed to pass a single piece of legislation to create jobs.
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But that prospect seemed unlikely, and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is unlikely to initiate any gun-control legislation in the absence of a Senate-passed bill.
And the legislation already is seen as too permissive by many in the conservative-controlled House, which also will have its say.
Even if gun legislation passes the Democratic-led Senate, it has less chance of winning approval in the Republican-controlled House.
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