In Mexico, an incident that in the past would have passed without notice spread rapidly over the Internet, ultimately requiring presidential action.
Boehner and Republicans complain the Senate has refused to take up any proposals they have passed in the past two years.
In the past, if someone passed a stress test they were sent home with a hearty assurance that they were fine.
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Rosenberg says for all the legislative failures of this past year, the immigration bill that passed the Senate had more bipartisan support than anything else.
He said sanctions passed over the past seven years had not affected Tehran's programme.
Just past midnight, the Senate passed, by a 52-47 vote, the GOP budget bill that Republicans say will balance the budget by 2002, salvage the Medicare program, return power to the states, and hand the middle class a tax cut.
Over the past two years, Michigan and Indiana passed right-to-work legislation, and the latter phased out its estate tax.
In 57 minutes Kris Boyd rose to flick on a long ball into the path of Kenny Miller, who passed to the advancing Davis to shoot past Graeme Smith.
Dismissive of the partisan deadlock witnessed over the past four years, he thinks such legislation could get passed in the next three to six months.
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In the past two years, at least 30 states have passed such legislation and are in the process of implementing changes.
Despite bipartisan support in the past, the Dream Act never passed Congress after it became caught up in the broader debate over reshaping the nation's immigration system, including what to do with the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally.
Almost 70m people passed through Heathrow in the past year, 93% of whom were on international flights.
On reconciliation, is there any -- when you mentioned things that have been passed using reconciliation in the past, is there any reason you left welfare reform off the list?
In the past the banks - trying to shore up their own defences - have not always passed on lower rates to customers.
The story has been on the front page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine newspaper several times over the past couple of weeks, and the discovery of the cookie's return was passed along via texts of the photo, residents say.
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And cash flow on the industrial side, stripped of the borrowed money passed through as a "dividend" from the finance side in years past, was down a reasonable 13% in 2009, given the worldwide financial meltdown.
And over the past four years, nearly every member has passed his or her matriculation exams.
In the past 60 years, excluding Ronaldo and Messi, the 30-goal mark has been passed on eight occasions by seven different players.
Over the past three decades Congress not only has never passed any legislation to regulate climate change, but has specifically rejected legislation to give EPA the authority which it now claims.
In a series of decisions in the past four years, the Chief Justice has expressed the view that the time has now passed when the Court should allow systemic remedies for racial discrimination.
He told supporters that only five pieces of legislation had passed through the Assembly over the past year, at a time when the news in Northern Ireland had been "dominated by old parades politics".
Lucic passed it to Krejci in the middle and he immediately passed it to Horton, who shot a 20-footer from the right past Hedberg, playing for the first time this season after Martin Brodeur started the Devils' other four games.
In the past three years, more than 25 states have passed laws to link scores to teacher evaluations, because officials think it is a more effective way to gauge performance than traditional reliance on observations by school principals.
Bergeron skated deep into the Rangers zone and then passed the puck across the crease to Marchand, who was waiting to tip it past Lundqvist for his second playoff goal.
But Congress has stepped in and passed laws covering a similar area in the past.
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In the past, this would have been inflationary: companies simply passed these higher costs on to consumers.
Bergeron passed across the slot and Marchand tipped it past Lundqvist from the left side of the crease.
Bergeron passed across the slot and Marchand tipped it past goalie Henrik Lundqvist from the left side of the crease.
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