"It has been a non-issue, it will continue to be a non-issue, unless this bill becomes law, " she said.
The Liberals will want to avoid race becoming an election issue, and a citizenship bill could help them.
Lord Rosser withdrew Labour's amendment without a vote, but signalled he would return to the issue at a later date in the bill's progress through the Lords.
Ministers are promising a draft Pensions Bill once a commission on the issue reports.
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Eleanor Laing, the Conservative MP for Epping Forest, raised the issue in a Ten Minute Rule Bill at the House of Commons on Wednesday.
The House of Representatives has already passed historic legislation, due in large part to the efforts of Massachusetts' own Ed Markey, he deserves a big round of applause. (Applause.) We're now seeing prominent Republicans like Senator Lindsey Graham joining forces with long-time leaders John Kerry on this issue, to swiftly pass a bill through the Senate as well.
"Senior salaries is a big issue... the senior salaries bill has come down already by a third and it will not grow under me, " he went on.
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Democrats -- noting that a patients' bill of rights has been a hot issue in Congress for five years and that Republicans will be free to offer amendments during the debate -- contend that Republicans are trying to delay debate not because they need more time but because an alternative GOP measure, backed by the White House, does not have enough votes to pass.
Obama had sought to resolve the issue as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations, but the issue never made it to a final bill.
The California Legislature recently approved a bill on this issue and other jurisdictions are trying to sort out whether a warrant is required under the Fourth Amendment and various state laws.
Westminster is consulting on whether to allow gay couples in England and Wales to marry, while in Scotland the SNP government has announced plans to bring forward a bill on the issue.
Mr Blair is determined to sort out the issue before he leaves office and wants a bill announced in the Queen's Speech in October.
On the issue of accountability, I have introduced a bill to require utility companies to disclose the amount of money that cap-and-trade policies would add to individual utility bills.
The Lib Dem superlawyer was all but purring as he read the government's response to the work of a joint parliamentary committee, which has been scrutinising a draft bill on the issue.
But although the government is will not take any direct action on fox hunting, Home Secretary Jack Straw has said the government will give its backing to a backbench bill on this issue.
The Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government's outline of the broad remit of the commission on the issue coincides with a private member's bill which is due to pass its final Commons hurdle this week.
There is a somewhat underappreciated issue here, though: the severability of the different aspects of a multifaceted bill.
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The vote saw MPs of all parties have a free say on the issue and were on a series of amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
But if you read the history of this act, the legislative history, you can see where the attorney general at the time, Griffin Bell, testified about the bill before the House Intelligence Committee, and what he said was that this bill eliminates the issue of whether a president has an inherent right to do electronic eavesdropping.
Interestingly, this week's statement of forthcoming Commons business, by the Leader of the House, Andrew Lansley, mentioned that Tuesday 19 March has been set aside for "proceedings on a bill", which might signal the deadline for sorting out the issue and bringing the Defamation Bill back.
All parties were feeling the heat, but the real angst was among Conservatives - not just because a lot of Tories instinctively disliked the bill, but also because of the way such a toxic issue had been handled.
Plus he has to pre-empt a possible primary challenge from former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, who wants to make a signature issue out of campaign-finance reform.
The government has promised a debate on the issue, but only after the bill is published.
The issue has also divided Australia, where lawmakers voted against a bill to legalize same-sex marriage last September.
There is a panoply of amendments, one of which addresses the issue of cash payments by scrap metal dealers, courtesy of Lords Bradshaw and Faulkner of Worcester, who had tried to put a clause on this issue into the Protection of Freedoms Bill.
They are also working with supporters of the bill on compromise language to regulate issue ads, a compromise supported by Democratic Sen.
On the issue of budget cuts, these are the product of a bipartisan bill, the Budget Control Act that was passed, as you know, in August.
McCain and Feingold initially sought to have issue ads banned entirely, but a compromise provision inserted into their bill during Senate consideration now calls for a moratorium on the distribution of such ads 60 days out from Election Day.
McCain and Feingold initially had sought to have issue ads banned entirely, but a compromise provision inserted into their bill during Senate consideration now calls for a moratorium on the distribution of such ads 60 days out from Election Day.
Issue 2, if passed, will uphold Senate Bill 5, a Republican attempt to alleviate looming budget problems by decelerating the expansion of employee compensation packages via collective bargaining reform.
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