And it pays for all of these by, in fact, revoking many of the tax breaks Republicans passed in recent years for big oil and natural gas companies.
In their defense, Malaysian officials point to the plethora of new legislation passed in recent years.
The conflict between pursuit of health and of athletic glory is particularly acute in Meghan Newcomer, a 32-year-old professional triathlete who in recent years passed out during several races, requiring acute medical attention and prompting her loved ones to ask her to slow down or retire.
Congress originally passed the law in 1965, and three years ago overwhelmingly passed its latest reauthorization, rejecting arguments that improvements in race relations had rendered the act unnecessary.
All of Cuba's top boxers in recent years have passed through here.
That streak marked the first time in the jet age that two consecutive years passed without a death in a commercial airline crash.
While states including Alabama, Georgia and Arizona, as well as some cities, have passed laws in recent years cracking down on illegal immigrants, Dayton officials say they will leave that to federal authorities and focus instead on how to attract and assimilate those who come legally.
Dingell said in the five years since a similar measure passed in Texas, only 17 cases have been filed in court.
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Boehner and Republicans complain the Senate has refused to take up any proposals they have passed in the past two years.
Remember in those years, in 2001 and 2003, Congress passed two of the most expensive tax cuts for the wealthy in history.
Democrats expected Conrad to put forward a Democratic budget that would have been the first detailed deficit reduction plan in three years, if passed by the committee.
As in so many cases before the court, the Justices were charged with interpreting a single, vague phrase in a law passed by Congress years ago--not whether the law itself is legal.
In the years since Missouri passed the Hancock Amendment, which restricts tax increases without a public vote, Missourians have opted to keep relative tax burdens low when faced with their own decision.
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Some of the most important pieces of legislation passed in the last two years include mountains of regulation (like the financial regulatory overhaul bill, which directly affects JPMorgan Chase and other banks), which have yet to play out.
In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents.
But after years of adjusting, the family now must confront yet another massive change: in February, Mike passed away, 11 years after his diagnosis.
But by the time Brendan got to his first game in my brother's seats, five years had passed and the Red Sox, in their never-ending campaign to wring more revenue out of the band box that is Fenway Park, had built two more rows, pushing my brother's seats back.
Two years ago, Congress passed legislation creating the compensation fund in response to years of complaints that those who were made sick by their exposure to toxic substances at the Ground Zero site needed and deserved health care and compensation.
In recent years, concealed-carry laws have duly passed in 31 states.
Under Mr. Reid's leadership, the Senate has not passed a budget resolution in three years.
Like Citizen Kane, Vertigo received mixed reviews on release but has grown in stature as the years have passed.
That's thanks to Act 221, passed three years ago in an effort to promote long-term business investment with credits to offset state income and corporate income taxes over a five-year period.
In the past two years, at least 30 states have passed such legislation and are in the process of implementing changes.
The increases in productivity in the coming years (because, technology) would not be passed on in pay packets.
In Britain, the Council of Churches has suggested an amnesty for illegal immigrants with children who have been in the country for more than five years, inspired by limited amnesties passed by the previous Labour government in the 1970s.
In his first two years, Obama passed legislation that addressed big issues, but partisanship has probably become more corrosive.
Elizabeth, in recent years, any number of proposals to allow drilling in ANWR have passed in the House and died in the Senate.
"The pharmaceutical industry had the courage to come out with compounds very quickly, " Sternbach told Forbes in 2003, two years before he passed away.
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