The certainty offered by a long-term bill is precisely what America's transportation leaders--like the Champions of Change I met yesterday--need to plan confidently for tomorrow's infrastructure and begin putting our friends and neighbors back to work today.
Given the urgency, the emergency bill will doubtless have to be rammed through before Parliament rises for the Summer, on July 19, so something in the current programme, which includes the Finance Bill, which enacts the Budget, an Opposition Day and the polishing off of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, will have to be ditched.
The Lords, meanwhile have Third Reading debates on the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill and the Postal Services Bill.
Constitutional experts told a committee of MPs examining the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill that four years would be better.
If it came down to it, would you approve of a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown?
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After White House and congressional leaders reached agreement on the fiscal 2011 budget, Congress approved another short-term spending bill to keep the government funded through Thursday at midnight.
On Wednesday it's more Lords amendments being considered by the Commons - this time on the Fixed Term parliaments Bill, which, again, was heavily amended in the Upper House.
According to news reports, Democrats and Republicans are unlikely to reach any sort of budget agreement before April 8, when a short-term spending bill for the current fiscal year expires.
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To avoid allowing a "zombie government" to stagger on for years, unable to muster a majority to pass any new laws, the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, says an election will be called 14 days after a lost confidence vote if no alternative government is able to show they have the confidence of MPs.
Institutions are also nervous, as very short-term T-bill rates have spiked, therefore causing the yield curve to flatten out.
He put out a safe on Friday saying he intends to pass another short-term stopgaps spending bill by the end of this week.
According to the report, as of May 22, the four banks issued only 340 billion yuan in new loans, with short-term loans and bill financing remaining the dominate type.
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Now, in addition to making sure that this plan doesn't add to the deficit in the short term, the bill I sign must also slow the growth of health care costs, while improving care, in the long run.
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The rider to deny the EPA funds to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant goes after a fairly recent policy that nevertheless has deep, strong bureaucratic roots, which again, is unlikely to be permanently altered by the expression of the will of one house of Congress on a short-term Continuing Appropriations bill.
It said it was "unconvinced" by the arguments for introducing fixed term Parliaments, claiming the bill owed "more to short term considerations than to a mature assessment of enduring constitutional principles or sustained public demand".
People from around the country and in my district are worried about the long-term impact of this bill.
BillFloat announced a new twist on its short-term loan service for bill payments.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs noted Monday that AARP was opposed to health care reform during the first term of former President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s.
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To fill the remaining two years of the term, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, appointed Denver School Superintendent Michael Bennet -- a man who has never run for statewide office before.
In the longer term most of these new taxpayers would eventually receive benefits, but the actuary said he still expects the bill to improve the long-term health of Social Security.
In the USA, President Barack Obama abandoned last year plans for a federal climate bill during his current term.
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For the rest of her term and after, as the bill was discussed in Congress, Augsburger was a tireless advocate for same-sex marriage.
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While Labour supports the idea of fixed term Parliaments, it claims the bill in its current form "does not stand up to scrutiny".
Mr Obama was able to pass a huge stimulus bill early in his term, and many lesser measures have made it to his desk.
When a company buys back stock instead of paying a dividend, the stock value appreciates by the like amount of the dividend and long-term shareholders get a 50% savings on their tax bill (assuming a 40% ordinary income tax rate versus a 20% long term capital gains rate).
President Bill Clinton's first term produced an interesting legal dilemma that later popped in subsequent administrations.
Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter replaced Colorado GOP Gov. Bill Owens, who is term limited.
For Microsoft the longer-term challenge is the one that keeps Bill Gates up at night: the IQ war.
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