"Anti-extremism legislation has been used to pressure an environmental NGO to stop work on environmental issues,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

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Mr.Obama says there is an urgent need to pass the reform legislation before Congress, to allow small businesses to expand and put people to work.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

President Obama is telephoning Democrats to urge them to vote for the legislation, as Democratic leaders work furiously to assure the 216 vote margin required for passage.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

That is the important of this legislation and moving forward we have to work in a bipartisan way to make sure that this does not happen again."

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

Jeff Sessions is a Republican from Alabama: "This legislation may have a great vision, it may have a great idea about trying to make the system work better.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

He says it is ironic that the Russian government is using anti-extremism legislation to prosecute NGOs, when he has received death threats from skinheads, because of the work he does.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

"More work needs to be done, which is why I urge the Senate to pass legislation that will give company shareholders a voice on the pay packages awarded to their executives,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

But John VandeBerg of the Southwest National Primate Research Center says if the proposed legislation to phase out medical research on chimpanzees is passed, scientists like him will have to end their work.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

One week after U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Congress that the Obama administration will work with lawmakers to impose "crippling" sanctions against Iran, Senate lawmakers introduced legislation designed to help accomplish just that.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

In 2006,the Russian parliament passed anti-extremism legislation that expanded the definition of extremism to include the slandering of a public official, hindering the work of authorities and involvement in hooliganism or vandalism for ideological, religious or ethnic reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

If both chambers can pass legislation, lawmakers would still have to work out differences between the versions before they could send a final bill to President Obama for signature, something he has said he wants to do before the year ends.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08