The initiative sidesteps a years-long stalemate in Congress over the Dream Act, draft legislation designed to legalize undocumented young people that has been ensnared in a broader debate about immigration overhaul.
Labour's Jack Straw - who helped draft the Freedom of Information Act - has said it should be re-written to create a protected space for cabinet ministers and officials to discuss policy.
Unlike so many laws and the lawmakers who draft them, the False Claims Act implicitly accounts for the fact that incentives matter.
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Such issues led Congress to draft the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004, which was designed to make clear that suborbital craft should be regulated as rockets.
Marco Rubio, who has been mentioned as a possible running mate, to draft a Republican version of the DREAM Act.
That's the fundamental premise and the overarching reason why John Conyers and I and others started so many years ago to draft the legislation called the Violence Against Women Act.
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That is why I wrote the Universal National Service Act, known as the "draft" bill, which requires all men and women between ages 18 and 25 to give two years of service in any capacity that promotes our national defense.
The NCCUSL decided to carry on with the draft statute, renaming it the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act.
The senator, of course, had a distinguished military record, served as secretary of the navy under Nixon and helped to draft some important pieces of legislation, including the Clean Air Act of 1990 (he was a strong environmentalist).
The draft text of the agreement, obtained by Reuters, stated that "Europe will act in a united, strong, rapid and decisive manner to avoid a recessionary spiral and sustain economic activity and employment".
The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, established this year, has been drumming up support for the administration and Congress to act quickly on climate change, but the committee has no authority to draft legislation.
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