Sentences with phrase «over legislation on»

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Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dropped Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

Trump, who had predicted success for McConnell's repeal - and - replace legislation just hours earlier, urged over Twitter: «Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Tuesday his province will support Alberta in the fight over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by introducing its own legislation on oil exports.

Insurers are facing an upheaval in their health insurance businesses due to uncertainty over the healthcare legislation as Republican lawmakers seek to follow through on their promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

When it finally happened, the impact on the markets was muted, which means there may be less urgency to resolve a standoff in Congress over debt restructuring legislation.

Price received plenty of scrutiny over his views on what to do about Obamacare (including the extent to which he will use his administrative role to dismantle the law) and his investments in a number of biopharma companies that would have benefited from legislation that he championed.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has attacked the government over its legislation to streamline the accounting process, arguing it lacks legal enforceability on how Ottawa spends «this $ 7 billion no - strings - attached Liberal slush fund.»

Salesforce came in and pushed the governor of Georgia up against a wall over a anti-gay legislation, and this week, Apple, Google and Facebook are among the companies putting serious pressure on North...

After a successful preliminary health care vote on Tuesday, Senate GOP leaders may have a new plan to get their health legislation over the finish line: pass what, in effect, could amount to a blank legislative check.

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

Among those on the dais was Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat with whom he quarreled bitterly in the spring over legislation authorizing him to negotiate trade pacts like one with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.

The PBO believes that Parliament is losing control over its fiduciary responsibilities, as set out in the Constitution, by approving legislation without knowing the full impact such legislation will have on the budgetary projections

The Ways and Means Committee voted on a number of tax bills last week, including legislation that would restore and expand bonus depreciation at a cost of $ 360 billion over the next decade (including interest).

The Labor Department's proposal also has its share of critics on Capitol Hill, including Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - Utah), the new chairman of the Finance Committee, who argues that DoL is attempting to regulate outside its proper jurisdiction, and has authored legislation that would enshrine regulatory authority over the IRA sector within the Treasury Department.

The legislation enforces limits on discretionary spending until 2021, establishes a procedure to increase the debt limit, creates a Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to propose further deficit reduction with a stated goal of achieving at least $ 1.5 trillion in budgetary savings over 10 years, and establishes automatic procedures for reducing spending by as much as $ 1.2 trillion if legislation originating with the new joint select committee does not achieve such savings.

A call for comment over the summer from both Industry Canada and the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission (enforcement of the law is shared by the CRTC, Competition Bureau, and Privacy Commissioner of Canada) generated dozens of responses, most of which begin by congratulating the government on passing anti-spam legislation and then proceeded to urge significant amendments.

Since Premier Rachel Notley and Energy Minister Marg McCuaig - Boyd unveiled their much anticipated â $ œturn - off - the - tapsâ $ legislation on Monday, the chattering classes have been all over the place on...

Finally, the legislation calls for repealing the medical device tax and imposing a new.035 percent quarterly tax on assets over $ 500 billion in large financial institutions.

«Results may continue to fluctuate over the coming months as consumers sort out the implications of the newly passed tax legislation on their household finances,» Duncan said.

A day after the bill's prospects wavered somewhat, Republican leaders notched two victories on Friday, when Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said he would vote yes after gaining a more generous child tax credit in the final bill and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who voted against the initial Senate bill over deficit concerns, said he would support the legislation.

Christians are constantly trying to fork their religion over on everyone, including through enacting legislation where they have voter majorities.

These are some of the principles on which the schools of thought based their decisions: all things are fundamentally allowable, unless specifically prohibited; toleration and the lifting of restrictions should be the aim of legislation; eradication of mischief is the aim of administration; necessity permits benefiting by things not otherwise allowable; necessity is given due appreciation; preventing mischief has priority over bringing about welfare; commit the lesser of two evils; mischief is not removed by mischief; one should suffer private damage to avert general disaster.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Taylor Swift — who famously took on Apple Music, too — is among hundreds of artists and labels who are petitioning to Congress to update the legislation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow them to be paid properly and have more control over the way their music is used on the website.

Over a quarter of a century ago he was editing a paper on race relations and social legislation.

Current immigration reform legislation already looked likely to founder over provisions that conservatives insisted on to make our borders secure.

This amendment granted the Church additional powers over its own governance, enabling it - through the Synod, to bring forth its own legislation, and even to amend Acts of Parliament on matters affecting it.

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

Related on Organic Authority General Mills and Organic Valley are Increasing U.S. Organic Dairy Production Thousands of Farmers and Consumers Demanding USDA Organic Program Overhaul Mass Exodus Expected from Leading Organic Trade Group Over Controversial GMO Legislation

But while moms all over the country can pat themselves on the back for influencing legislation to make our children safer they also need to be aware that the BPA industry is going to tussle.

In the light of last night's vote in the House of Commons on whether or not to hold a referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, Unlock Democracy is calling on Parliament to decide new rules over whether legislation has constitutional implications or not and how such decisions should be decided.

In the United Kingdom, the 2012 Contest annual report notes that «over 4,000 URLs which breach UK terrorism legislation have been taken down», while referencing the need to see «more work done to ensure the communications industry is aware of extremist material circulating on their communications services and is actively assessing that material against their own codes of practice to determine whether it should be removed».

Espada Jr. also teed off on his majority conference colleague, Sen. Liz Krueger, and Housing Here and Now's Michael McKee, with whom the majority leader is at odds over housing legislation that advocates have accused him of blocking.

The CIOT also calls for a debate on whether the House of Lords should play a greater role in scrutinising tax legislation as it goes through Parliament, without detracting from the powers of the House of Commons over tax matters.

The legislation has stalled in the state Senate in recent years, but supporters this session hope the focus and societal shift on sexual misconduct and abuse could reframe the debate over the bill at the Capitol.

Lawmakers returning to Washington this coming week will find a familiar quagmire on health care legislation and a budget deadline dramatized by the prospect of a protracted battle between the president and Democrats over his border wall.

«Having worked on DNA - related legislation for over 25 years, I see the use of «familial» DNA testing as the next significant step in assisting our law enforcement officials in solving these sickening crimes and getting these violent criminals off our streets,» Boyle said.

A California Senate leader on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at circumventing a central plank in the new Republican tax law, introducing a model that - if successful - could be replicated all over the country.

Democratic members of the committee questioned Price's $ 300,000 in shares over the past four years in health care companies that were impacted by legislation he worked on.

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

These new metro mayors are being introduced in England as part of the Government's devolution agenda, which allows for combined authorities to take on more functions, over and above those they were allowed to take on under previous legislation.

The state legislature ends its session for the year on June 16, and expectations are low for any major pieces of legislation to be resolved before the adjournment, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration faces increasing scrutiny from the U.S. attorney over economic development projects.

We think that Senator Lieberman's proposal is obviously an important step in that legislation, and I would point out that you heard from commanders in the field over the weekend on news shows as well as former chairman Powell also come out strongly in support of repealing «don't ask, don't tell.»

That has meant that May's government has been repeatedly defeated over the EU withdrawal bill, with peers inflicting 15 defeats on issues such as the customs union, the Irish border and removing the precise date of Brexit — 29 March 2019 — from the legislation.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, David Anderson QC, the government's independent reviewer of terror legislation, said the «real issue» was that people were communicating not over the telephone, but over the internet, using service providers based in the United States.

Although legislation enacted over the past 12 years has lead to greater transparency in political party funding, unlike many other major industrial democracies, the UK does not have a ceiling on donations to political parties.

Trump declared US ties with Russia are at a «very dangerous low» and lashed out at Congress over legislation he signed that imposes new sanctions on Moscow.

Also at 11 a.m., leading government watchdog groups call on the state Legislature and governor to pass legislation that strengthens independent oversight over state contracting and a Database of Deals to ensure fair and transparent contract awards, outside state Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.