Just a few days ago, the hedge fund industry won a behind-the-scenes war to kill a bill that would have plugged a loophole that funnels billions of dollars into the pockets of some of the highest-paid people in America.
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The Democrats have the votes to pass such a kill-bill and obviously a President who will sign it.
Hospital safety advocates expect the California Hospital Association to kill a new bill that would force hospitals to report staph infections.
Similarly, if just two Republicans can threaten to kill a budget bill by talking it to death (as happened last month), then there is nothing Mr Hastert can do about that either, except to pull the bill from the floor of the House.
In 2007, John Sweeney, who was then president of AFL-CIO, helped kill a bipartisan immigration reform bill by coming out against guest workers and firing off a letter to Senate Democrats telling them not to support any bill that included that provision.
It would permit Senate Democrats to kill the reconciliation bill on a point of order.
It got a boost in 2003 when Uma Thurman appeared in the movie Kill Bill decked out in Tiger wear -- a yellow sweatsuit and a pair of gold-colored Onitsuka Taichi sneakers with black stripes.
Peers voted by a majority of six to put a "sunset clause" in the legislation, aiming to kill off the bill after the next general election unless a future government chose to revive it, and by a majority of four to restrict the issues on which referendums would be held.
Such a standoff would likely kill the bill, aides and lawmakers said.
Opponents will no doubt bring up his work on behalf of tobacco companies and ask, as others have, whether it impelled him to kill a statewide anti-smoking programme in 2006 and to twice veto a bill that would have replaced the state's grocery tax with a higher tax on tobacco.
Plus, the guy was a cult star, of Kill Bill and Kung Fu fame.
John Barrasso of Wyoming, a practicing doctor, said the bill would kill jobs and raise health care costs.
Meehan agreed, saying the Ney-Wynn bill was nothing more than a ploy to kill reform efforts.
This is probably why the special interests have spent a lot of time and money lobbying to kill or weaken the bill.
EBay Inc. is lobbying to limit the bill's effects, not kill it outright, a sign it sees passage of some version as unavoidable.
He also signed a measure allowing Wisconsin residents to carry concealed weapons, and a bill giving legal protection to homeowners who shoot and kill intruders on their property.
Tuesday's vote will be on a motion to table the bill, that is, to kill it.
Debate on the bill stalled indefinitely after Democrats failed to beat back a Republican attempt to kill the measure.
"In effect, a vote to invoke cloture is a vote to kill tobacco, " Bryan said during floor debate on the nuclear waste bill.
Films under threat if a strike takes place include Basic Instinct 2, Indiana Jones 4 and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
That is when the votes will take place - unusually there will be an amendment designed to kill the bill at second reading, which is not something the Lords normally do, and is essentially a gesture, and unlikely to be agreed.
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