The industry can anticipate a new level of attention from U.S. legislators, regulators and consumers following Shuanghui's deal to acquire Virginia-based pork producer Smithfield Foods.
Congressional rules give Colombia's legislators two more voting opportunities to reintroduce wording to make the law retroactive.
Mahoney said more than half of New York's legislators have used leftover campaign funds to buy themselves cars.
Louisiana's legislators recently approved a bill to cut prison sentences for some drug offences and other non-violent crimes.
But these were rules that they themselves set up as the nation's legislators.
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Louisiana's legislators were among those to shun a tax hike of any kind, but since January at least 37 states have raised or are considering raising taxes and fees.
On February 16th, Hong Kong's legislators tried to pre-empt any such measure by voting 36 to 2 against a sales tax, even though no such thing had been proposed to them.
And some states are pre-emptively acting to keep video gambling out: Alabama's legislators and those in nine other states voted against bills this year that would have introduced it at racetracks and casinos.
Olson gave the Justices two: the 1887 law and Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which gives state legislators, not a state's judges, the authority to decide how members of the Electoral College will be chosen.
Earlier this year, U.S. legislators made an unsuccessful pitch for military contracts to keep Hathaway Shirt from going bust.
Sohn says that's how legislators managed to pass the pro-IP bill when they couldn't agree on a bailout package.
Shelley had perhaps already sensed that public and poetic language were diverging when he called poets the world's unacknowledged legislators.
Disclosure: Because of companies I work for and agencies I interact with, I cannot accurately frame my slant on certain U.S. legislators.
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They had hired people who were not Oklahoma citizens to gather petition signatures for a referendum to impose spending limits on Oklahoma's profligate legislators.
This is all the more telling at a time when the Iranians' Shia co-religionists in neighbouring Iraq are likely to emerge, by democratic means, as that embattled country's leading legislators.
Ross Bhappu is a little-known mining and commodities investor, but he leads an investment group that controls a company, Molycorp, that U.S. legislators and military planners increasingly believe is a vital strategic asset.
But such talk failed even to reassure Arizona's own legislators, who moved last Friday--less than two weeks after the law was passed--to amend the law's more draconian provisions after civil rights groups threatened to sue on constitutional grounds.
Westchester County's Board of Legislators passed a resolution urging similar action by federal leaders.
He's hoping that legislators on Capitol Hill will work to iron out their differences.
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New York state had strict laws even before legislators passed the nation's toughest last week.
None of the legislators mentioned the NRA's call for armed guards at school as an option under consideration.
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It's likely that legislators will choose to ignore the recommendations, and we can probably expect details of the roadmap to get lost in the political gridlock.
Even tobacco state legislators want last year's settlement ratified.
Acting like social engineers who know what's best, legislators say that people who retire early are more likely to end up in poverty, and so, by Washington's perverse logic, they should face a ferocious tax if they take reduced Social Security benefits and continue to work.
As the immigration debate in the Senate moves into a decisive phase this week, legislators who believe America 's southern border must be secured, the Nation's existing immigration laws enforced and illegal aliens not rewarded with permanent residency and a direct path to citizenship are being sharply criticized and, in some cases, defamed as bigots and xenophobes.
Or will they serve as an anchor to windward for their party's most senior legislators, perhaps by threatening to more robust security policy approaches on a bipartisan basis with what will, hopefully, prove to be a more dynamic, principled and effective Republican caucus now in the minority of at least one house of Congress (and possibly both)?
Given all these advantages, it's not surprising that legislators have been slow to change their states' pension systems.
And in more than a dozen states around the U.S., local legislators now are actively wrestling with universal health care schemes.
Democratic legislators balked at Mr Brown's previous plan to address the deficit.
Seventy-seven-year-old John Dale(ph) hasn't contacted his legislators yet, but he's pretty upset about the symptoms he suffered when his anemia fell into the mid zone.
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