"The attorney general must explain the Justice Department's actions to the public so that we can make sure this kind of press intimidation does not happen again, " said Laura Murphy, the director of ACLU's Washington legislative office.
"This nomination is too important to proceed without the Senate first knowing what happened during Brennan's tenures at the CIA and the White House, and whether all of his conduct was within the law, " Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office, said in a statement.
C. legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union, says that free speech advocates worry that the cyberharassment laws are too vague and far-reaching because, at least in theory, they can be used to cover speech that is merely offensive or uncomfortable, if the target claims they feel emotional distress as a result of the communication.
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Janet Murguia worked in Clinton's legislative affairs office then and found herself at odds with Munoz.
Last week, the state's Legislative Analyst's Office came out with a damning indictment of the project's unrealistic cost estimates and poor management.
And California's independent Legislative Analyst's Office, says the fiscal downside is modest.
The Constitution's "speech or debate clause" bars the executive branch from executing a search warrant for non-legislative materials in the office of a member of Congress.
Army officials said privately the timing was just a coincidence and insisted the Army's Office of Legislative Affairs was simply responding to requests for information from Congress.
An opinion issued by the Office of Legislative Services, which serves as nonpartisan staff for the Legislature, said Mr. Christie has the option of picking either November 2013 or 2014.
The Office of Legislative Services found in May that 18 funds with dedicated revenues were being diverted to the general fund, where Mr. Christie and the Legislature can use almost all of them as they please.
According to the Army statement, the resignation of Kenneth A. Steadman, principal deputy in the Army's Office of Legislative Affairs, followed his decision to accept responsibility for distributing the talking points defending the Crusader to Congress.
The administration would seek to guide the legislative debate through its new privacy office.
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Passing the China trade bill is among President Clinton's top legislative priorities for his final year in office.
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However, Lew became increasingly numbers focused, serving as the Associate Director for Legislative Affairs and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget and later, the managing director of Citi Global Wealth Management and chief operating officer Citigroup Alternative Investments.
With a brand new home secretary, a Home Office already suffering from acute legislative drafting fatigue and an election around the corner, the dangers of Number 10 rushing to meet the deadline of March 14th (when the existing detention powers expire) should have been obvious.
In addition, a report issued by the Government Accountability Office in July cast doubt on several legislative proposals to reform the agency, especially one that would lower the down payment requirement for FHA insurance.
On the Turkish Cypriot side, Mehmet Ali Talat also says he is committed to a deal, and his time may be running out: his nationalist opponents thumped his party in legislative elections recently, and Mr Talat could be turfed out of office next year.
As such, she becomes the first third-party member of the Assembly, the state's lower legislative house, since 1917, and the first Green elected to partisan office in the United States.
Prior to that, Commissioner Sommers worked in the Government Affairs Office of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where she was instrumental in overseeing regulatory and legislative affairs for the exchange.
Some 20 states allow government workers, if elected to office, to retire from their previous jobs and start collecting pensions while also collecting their legislative salaries.
As Schapiro embarks on her second year in office, the SEC's 29th chairman commands a laundry list of initiatives that include crucial legislative proposals, with proxy access prominent among them.
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