• Crowdfunder offers a blend of donation-based and investment crowdfunding from individuals and angel investors, and was a leading participant in the JOBS Act legislation.

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  • Ministers are very careful to avoid using this kind of shorthand - it's almost certain that had they wanted to use such language in the legislation, the Act would have had a far harder time.

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  • In a paper released today, entitled Veto Shmeeto: Bush Should Sign the New Export Administration Act, the Center provides a qualified endorsement of this legislation, the Export Administration Act Amendments of 1990, and most of its revisions of current U.S. export control laws.

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  • The act is legislation designed to make it easier for young people to start a business, which coincides with the Gen-Y Capital Partners mission.

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  • The policy change mimics legislation called the DREAM Act, which Democrats were unable to push through Congress in 2010 because of a Republican-led filibuster in the Senate.

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  • He pays little heed to the insistence that such interventions as there have been arise from the incorporation of European human rights legislation into the Scotland Act 1998.

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  • The Senate legislation amends the JOBS Act, which passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support earlier this month, with language that would require SEC oversight of equity-based crowdfunding platforms.

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  • Mentioned above, the Communications Decency Act is legislation that Congress passed to protect the free flow of information online by stating that websites could not be sued for carrying defamatory material.

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  • Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, blamed Congress for mandating the annual health pre-payments in 2006, but suggested lawmakers should wait to act on legislation until next year.

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  • The Conservatives have been strongly critical of the Human Rights Act - legislation which introduced into British law the principles of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights - of which Britain was one of the authors.

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  • She said the Silk Report's recommendations had very complex implications well beyond borders of Wales, some of which could be implemented relatively quickly without legislation while others required a substantial rewriting of the Government of Wales Act or new Treasury legislation.

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  • Romney also said he was "taking a look" at Rubio's recent proposal for a conservative alternative to the DREAM Act, legislation that would grant citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants who have been brought to the United States illegally as children.

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  • Because while there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of evil, if there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there is even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try.

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  • The whole JOBS Act and crowdfunding legislation has ample numbers of supporters and detractors.

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  • The commission was created in January as part of the same legislation that repealed the CLASS Act.

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  • The core principle of America's 1984 National Organ Transplant Act and the legislation of other nations: no meat markets.

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  • Even his hallmark legislation, the Affordable Care Act, should be in the mix.

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  • Some of you probably know that last month, I sent Congress a piece of legislation called the American Jobs Act.

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  • Congress is due to debate the reauthorisation of two bits of green legislation, the Endangered Species Act and Superfund, which deals with contaminated land.

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  • The family also have been advocates for the so-called Unborn Victims of Violence Act, state legislation that would create a fetal homicide law in North Carolina.

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  • Such an approach should, in particular, govern the U.S. Senate's imminent action on legislation reauthorizing the Export Administration Act (due to expire on 30 September 1990).

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  • The IPO Process : According to Mark, Workday was one of the first companies to use the JOBS Act, recent legislation to make public offerings less onerous.

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  • In just the Bush years alone, Washington enacted two major pieces of omnibus energy legislation, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

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  • The initiative sidesteps a years-long stalemate in Congress over the Dream Act, draft legislation designed to legalize undocumented young people that has been ensnared in a broader debate about immigration overhaul.

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  • Cheap gas and environmental legislation under the Clean Air Act, aimed at emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide and mercury (but not carbon dioxide) from dirty coal plants, accelerated a trend that is set to continue.

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  • While legislation such as the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 are embedded in many Americans' idea of government responsibility for the environment, these laws are being revisited.

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  • Clinton recognized the untapped potential in some Carter-era legislation, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which would give his administration leverage over financial institutions to increase loans to members of key voting blocs despite their relatively poor credit ratings.

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  • It looks like we may finally get a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, landmark legislation that has helped lead to a 67 percent decrease in the rate of intimate partner violence since it was first authorized.

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  • Now called the DRIVE Act, this legislation is expected to be resubmitted this Thursday by such leading lights as Senators Joe Lieberman, Sam Brownback, Evan Bayh and Norm Coleman and Representatives Eliot Engel, Jim Saxton, Mike Ross and Jack Kingston.

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  • In just the Bush years alone, Washington enacted two major pieces of legislation, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, both of which had major impacts on how energy companies could, and couldn't, do business.

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