Sentences with phrase «support sweeping legislation»

After a series of studies conducted last November and December, Luntz concluded that most people do believe climate change is real, but aren't necessarily going to support sweeping legislation on that premise alone.

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The government is facing claims from Remain supporting MPs that it is giving itself sweeping powers to change legislation without proper Parliamentary scrutiny.

Washington (CNN)- A top Senate Democrat has offered a pair of amendments to an immigration reform bill bolstering rights for same - sex couples, a politically risky move that threatens to shatter Republican support for the sweeping legislation.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

The Humane Society Legislative Fund has posted a long, long list of candidates it claims support Animal Rights legislation and have voted or co-sponsored AR laws sweeping the country.

The Regulations amount to a sweeping consolidating reform of the existing piecemeal legislation and implement the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005, which is intended to harmonise legislation across the European Community preventing business practices that are unfair to consumers, so as to support growth of the internal market.

Since the enactment of Title IV - D of the Social Security Act in 1975, a wave of federal legislation has swept through state child support agencies in an effort to simplify the paternity establishment process for nonmarital births.