As for the right to education, while noble in its goal of providing every child a schooling, it may have the unintended effect of shutting down good private schools for some of India's poorest children by mandating infrastructure many won't be able to afford.

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Nancy Rankin, a senior fellow at Better Balance, an organization devoted to workplace issues and a supporter of the bill, said evidence from San Francisco, which approved similar legislation, shows mandating paid sick leave won't devastate the business community.

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Many Senate Republicans--especially in the Southeast where wind power is scarce--aren't comfortable with the "renewable portfolio standard" mandating utilities provide a minimum amount of clean energy production.

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