If it came down to it, would you approve of a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown?
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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".
Constitutional experts told a committee of MPs examining the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill that four years would be better.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill introduces a new mandatory custodial term for 16 and 17-year-olds who threaten with a knife.
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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.
The bill, a long-term goal of both the National Military Family Association and the Survivor Committee of the Military Coalition, would make the funds accessible once the retiree passes away and would allow children of deceased military veterans to remain qualified for federal assistance while still being able to access the funds in their special needs trust.
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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He bases his prediction on this: The first year of a new President's term has often been marked by a big tax bill.
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).
She once advised Bill Clinton to accept a ban on late-term abortions as part of a compromise.
Back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was campaigning for his first term, he made a virtue of his disdain for foreign-policy issues.
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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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The House of Representatives, under Republican control as a result of last November's mid-term elections, has balked at passing the necessary bill.
The midterm election year of 1994, in which Republicans took control of Congress, is widely seen as a reaction to the presidential election year of 1992, when Bill Clinton won his first term.
Stories such as Pierre's are part of the reason the U.S. Federal Communications Commission this week plans to propose rules to prevent mobile phone "bill shock, " a term that refers to bills that are higher than usual because of unanticipated fees and overage charges.
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.
On the short-term list, we already, for example, passed a historic public lands bill that creates many more acres of public space that is environmentally protected -- (applause) -- from logging and from other -- from mining and from other uses.
He put out a safe on Friday saying he intends to pass another short-term stopgaps spending bill by the end of this week.
This last-minute term paper was only 5 pages of principles, which has yet to be turned into the necessary hundreds of pages of a bill.
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Mr Bradley said the committee supported the general principles of the bill, despite reservations over some matters, such as the use of the term "miscellaneous" as a budget heading.
White House aides watched from the sidelines as the committee began its work on a bill that President Barack Obama has made a top priority in the opening months of his second term in the White House.
Launched by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates in June of last year, the Giving Pledge is a long-term charitable initiative that aims to inspire conversations about philanthropy and increase charitable giving in the United States.
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But even if Employee Free Choice becomes law, it is unlikely on its own to indicate any long-term reversal in the decline of unionism, reckons Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago who opposes the bill.
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