The hold, for example, was a courtesy extended to senators in the days of horse travel, when they needed time to get back to Washington and read a bill or question an appointee before casting their vote.
They're giving everyone three days to read the bill online and make a decision.
In Congress, the House Ways and Means Committee originates tax legislation and holds hearings on various tax related subjects as well as a markup in which a bill may be read (typically the members waive this step) and amendments are considered.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that would require the feds to get a warrant to read your email, not the version of the bill CNet reported on.
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It's very easy for you -- for the credit card companies to find you and send you your bill, but somehow you can never get a decent bill that makes sense and that you can read in health care because of all the paperwork involved.
Just as they did with the stimulus package, Congressional leaders demanded we vote on a bill no one could possibly have read.
According the the Georgia legislature's Web site on Tuesday, Hudgens' bill had been read and assigned to a committee, but no other action had taken place.
Former President Bill Clinton, in a statement read by Brubeck's longtime manager Russell Gloyd, recalled being "utterly captivated" at age 15 after hearing Brubeck's quartet in concert and then going home to play "Take Five" until his lips gave out.
First, we need to reconcile the American people's demands for swift action with the fact that a good bill requires time -- time to hold hearings, read the bill in painstaking detail, and root out waste.
Bill Foster, a fisherman from Hatteras, North Carolina, and Dr Read, proposed the project because the Pamlico Sound near Hatteras was closed to large-mesh gill nets (which are dragged behind a boat like a curtain) for four months a year because too many turtles were being caught by accident.
R. 4646, referred to as the Debt Free America Act, is a bill introduced by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) in 2010 ( read the full text here).
Bush sent his sympathies in a statement read at the service by Baylor President Ken Starr, the former special prosecutor who investigated President Bill Clinton.
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.
The bill, however, would have provided the White House with more flexibility to administer the reductions (read: more to farming, less to developing the Killbot 2.0) The bill was rejected by a 62-38 vote, with nine Republicans voting against their own party.
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