Today, I am pleased to submit to the Congress the enclosed legislative proposal, the "American Jobs Act of 2011, " together with a section-by-section analysis of the legislation.
While ministers had threatened to use the Parliament Act to push the age of consent measure through the Lords, the same act cannot be used to repeal Section 28 because the legislation began its current parliamentary passage in the upper house.
The most significant revision made to the legislation was the removal of a regulatory section, opposed by Republicans, that would have required companies operating critical infrastructure to meet basic cybersecurity standards established by the Homeland Security Department.