Business groups have opposed this draft legislation because, they claim, employees could be coerced into checking yes on a card to unionize.
" Environmental groups such as Greenpeace describe the draft bill as only a first step that "must be strengthened.
The government is publishing a revised national planning policy framework, following a row with conservation groups over last year's draft plans.
As investigative journalist Donna Laframboise reports, most of the 13 senior scientists controlling the draft report are prominently associated with environmental activist groups.
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As we speak, bipartisan groups in both chambers are working diligently to draft a bill, and I applaud their efforts.
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Delegates split up into separate groups to mark up the 68-page draft platform, with each of the eight subcommittees focusing on a section of the document.
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The consultation, which will close on 23 October, wants individuals and groups to give their views on whether a draft Operating Agreement reflects the agreement made in 2011.
Draft proposals, published last year, were opposed by groups including the National Trust, Campaign to Protect Rural England and Friends of the Earth, amid criticism that they amounted to a "developers' charter".
It based the draft legislation on proposals created by 16-member bicameral working groups on the topics of gun violence, school security and mental health.
But even in draft form the proposal is drawing criticism from abortion-rights groups, who suggest it is an effort by abortion foes within the administration to create legal recognition for the fetus.
The delegates split into two groups of government and non-government representatives to discuss the draft OER Declaration.
The timeline contained in the draft report indicates that IRS scrutiny of tea-party and other conservative groups began as early as 2010 and came to the attention of Ms. Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt-organizations division, at least by the following year.
Environmental groups are now suing the agency and trying to force it to draft tougher regs.
The finer points of the draft will probably be the subject of wearisome debate by December, as different groups ready themselves for the elections.
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However, after months of intense lobbying by the for-profit schools, their front groups, and conservative lawmakers, the new rules are significantly weaker than draft rules first proposed by the Education Department last year.
Once the panel is reconstituted, its members will not be starting from scratch in drawing up a draft, since Egypt has had three previous constitutions and various political and civic society groups have drawn up models, Ashour said.
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Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari objected to the draft treaty's failure to include an embargo on transferring arms to "terrorist armed groups and to non-state actors".
The groups agreed in June to co-operate in publishing their findings on the first draft of the human genome after what was portrayed as bitter competition.
Other religious groups, including Muslims, Jews and Buddhists, have also expressed their concern over the draft bill, and many lawmakers and hundreds of mayors are against the legislation.
In recent weeks two competing working groups, one in Warsaw, the other in Gdansk, have put the finishing touches to draft codes of best practice.
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The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) met this morning to take action on draft resolutions relating to information and communications technologies for development, sustainable development, globalization and interdependence, and groups of countries in special situations.
Other challenges include ensuring the draft's wording protects individual freedoms, women's rights and the rights of religious minorities and disenfranchised groups, he said.
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Other religious groups in France, including Muslims, Jews and Buddhists, have also expressed their concern over the draft bill, and more than 100 lawmakers are against the legislation, according to CNN affiliate BFM-TV.
Other religious groups in France, including Muslims, Jews and Buddhists, have also expressed their concern over the draft bill, and more than 100 lawmakers are against the legislation, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
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