• 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.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • "It has been a non-issue, it will continue to be a non-issue, unless this bill becomes law, " she said.

    NPR: Arizona House Panel OKs Softened Transgender Bill

  • On August 30th, a committee of lawmakers and government officials was to meet to issue amendments to the bill.

    ECONOMIST: Russian electricity

  • "What is surprising is just how wide the gap is between single young adults' intentions and behavior on this very important issue, " said Bill Albert, chief program officer at the organization.

    CNN: Gaps found in young people's sex knowledge

  • It is expected that the House will pass this March a clean bill (with no offsets unlike the Senate bill) just on the issue of repealing the Form 1099 provisions contained in the Health bill (again nothing regarding the real estate Form 1099 provisions in the Small Business bill).

    FORBES: 1099 Form Reporting Repeal? -- Not So Fast -- And Not The Whole Enchilada

  • His bill merely instructs the Federal Communications Commission to study the issue and institutes an "Internet Consumers' Bill of Rights" that critics have disparaged as worthless.

    FORBES

  • In October, the Federal Communications Commission said it might issue new rules to prevent bill shock.

    CNN: Analyst: iPads, Kindles, GPS units to be cheaper in 2012

  • The Liberals will want to avoid race becoming an election issue, and a citizenship bill could help them.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • Turning to the issue of the Safeguarding Board Bill, the committee discussed the rate of remuneration for the chairperson of the board.

    BBC: Health Committee

  • They hope their American friends can help them put the issue on the agenda for Bill Clinton's visit to Moscow this weekend.

    ECONOMIST: Russia

  • 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.

    FORBES: Debate Over Warrantless Cellphone Searches Heats Up

  • 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.

    BBC: A couple handing hands

  • 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.

    BBC: Cheering the changes

  • 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.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | What the Queen won't say

  • 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.

    NPR: NSA Case Plaintiff and Author James Bamford

  • The government has promised a debate on the issue, but only after the bill is published.

    ECONOMIST: Venezuela

  • Even if the energy bill dissolves, the issue will undoubtedly resurface in other legislation.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And if Republicans were serious about addressing that issue, they would pass that bill tomorrow.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Friday's lack of action on the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill means that the issue will not be discussed this session.

    CNN: Uganda's parliament takes no action on anti-gay bill

  • Opponents also warned that seniors would demand that Congress revisit the issue once they realized what the bill does and does not do.

    CNN: Senate passes Medicare bill

  • Eleanor Laing, the Conservative MP for Epping Forest, raised the issue in a Ten Minute Rule Bill at the House of Commons on Wednesday.

    BBC: Epping MP Eleanor Laing calls for Magna Carta holiday

  • Opponents of the legislation warned that seniors would demand that Congress revisit the issue once they realized what the bill does and does not do.

    CNN: Bush signs landmark Medicare bill into law

  • Lord Howe denied the legislation undermined the health secretary's ultimate accountability for the NHS but said he was willing to amend the bill to put the issue beyond doubt.

    BBC: House of Lords told delays 'could kill off NHS bill'

  • 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.

    BBC: Week ahead in Parliament

  • 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.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Pushes Clean Energy

  • Her constituency includes a fair chunk of bedsit-land, so this bill addresses an important local issue.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • The White House has already threatened to veto the Defense Authorization Bill if the habeas corpus issue is added as an amendment.

    NPR: Bid to Give Detainees Right to Appeal Falls Short

  • Obama had sought to resolve the issue as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations, but the issue never made it to a final bill.

    CNN: Obama signs bill warding off fiscal cliff

  • She said Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Minister Bill Rammell will raise the issue with the Laotian foreign minister when he visits the UK on 7 May.

    BBC: Pregnant Briton 'faces execution'

  • "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.

    BBC: New BBC boss Tony Hall vows to tackle senior staff pay-offs

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