I want Congress to enact laws that will help the country.
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The measures could include using contentious emergency decrees, thereby bypassing parliament, to enact laws.
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The amendment would also allow states to enact laws creating public financing of campaigns.
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Warren said Congress should enact laws that reinforce the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v.
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Dealerships nationwide fought for years to enact laws and regulations that protect their businesses.
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Feinstein's bill to help states enact laws that allow for extreme risk protection orders.
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It can now enact laws without junior partner Komeito, which is split on casinos.
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Wade is it denied the people the right to enact laws they feel appropriate.
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Great nations find imaginative ways to enact laws that are neither naive nor brutal.
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We'd enact laws that explicitly protect LGBT people from discrimination in the workplace and housing market.
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Environmental groups failed in their push to allow states to enact laws stronger than federal rules.
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A lengthening gulf has emerged between those who enact laws and those who endure the consequences.
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He needs to be willing to take stronger actions to enact laws that accomplish that goal.
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But lawmakers put judges in a real bind when they enact laws that call for judicial elections.
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Heitkamp suggested that states follow South Dakota's lead and enact laws tailored not to target small businesses.
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He also said leaders had to enact laws to end injustice and social inequality that breeds violence.
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Efforts to enact laws aimed at censoring Palestine solidarity enjoy broad support from both major political parties.
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Orban now wants to enact laws that force non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to register with the government.
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They have threatened to enact laws that could bar Mr. Netanyahu from a new term in office.
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They have threatened to enact laws that could bar Mr. Netanyahu from a new term in office.
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The explosion of drone ownership has left many governments scrambling to enact laws aimed at avoiding close calls.
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The report also urges policymakers to improve mass transit, and enact laws to electrify the ride-sharing industry.
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Now, Chambers, who says she continues to struggle with PTSD, is working to enact laws in the United States.
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The people exercise that sovereignty through elected representatives, who in turn enact laws to which the people are subject.
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Once backed by the popular will, those leaders can then set policies and enact laws on the electorate's behalf.
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The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that Congress cannot enact laws prohibiting the freedom of the press.
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Lawsuits have, so far, halted every state attempt to enact laws that would ban abortion earlier in the pregnancy.
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Republican-dominated state legislatures are attempting to enact laws that disqualify eligible voters whom they feel will not vote Republican.
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It also reifies efforts by GOP-controlled state legislatures to enact laws that make it harder for Americans to vote.
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf last month said the nation must enact laws to protect women and girls from violence.
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The federal government has no grounds to intrude on California's constitutional authority to enact laws designed to protect its people.
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But it goes against the principles of freedom and liberty to enact laws to enforce one view on every individual.
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The legislature now has two years either to amend the Civil Code or to enact laws addressing same-sex couples.
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Second, unions in many Democratic-controlled states convinced state legislatures to enact laws intended to blunt the effects of the ruling.
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Congress has turned to its commerce power to enact laws prohibiting private discrimination on the basis of age, race, and gender.
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The Democratic pundit message as of Sunday night was that the President is a racist and we should enact laws without him.
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Some lawmakers have tried to enact laws to expand the benefits for children of North Korean defectors, especially those born in China.
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America's federal structure rests on three pillars: a congress to enact laws, an executive to administer them, and a judiciary to settle disputes.
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Its program End the Backlog is credited with persuading state lawmakers across the nation to enact laws requiring the testing of rape kits.
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Critics of the ban say the city should be doing more to enact laws that enable police to use the technology responsibly. 6.
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The AMA is proud to have helped more than two dozen states enact laws over the past five years to increase naloxone access.
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Trump's victory has also raised questions over whether the new administration and Congress could enact laws that would crimp the U.S. central bank's autonomy.
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This leaves Somalia in a small group of countries including Liberia, Mali, Sudan and Sierra Leone, which have yet to enact laws against it.
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This leaves Somalia in a small group of countries — including Liberia, Mali, Sudan, and Sierra Leone — which have yet to enact laws against it.
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Unless and until the other partner in this story is identified and treated accordingly, how dare anyone enact laws concerning such a personal matter?
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The education ministry will review the teaching credentials of MTM teachers and enact laws to set minimum requirements for expatriate teachers and principals, Tarr said.
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Instead, we got a system in which electors are expected to behave like robots, and in which states enact laws to ensure that they will.
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As chair of the Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council, she gave frequent testimony and urged lawmakers to enact laws that could bring the marginalized into life's mainstream.
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Marijuana should be legal because the purpose of government is to enact laws that protect citizens from harm, while still allowing them personal freedoms and liberties.
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In 2003, Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's leader at the time, tried to enact laws to restrict political freedoms in the name of protecting national security.
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The herdsmen thunder ultimatums at state assemblies that dare to enact laws regulating their business practices, which include murder, kidnapping, rape and the destruction of farms.
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They should enact laws that hold health plans accountable for the accuracy of the data that they publish about which providers are in the plans' networks.
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The Republican platform says the party "strongly oppose[s] litigation against states exercising their sovereign authority to enact" laws requiring both proof of citizenship and voter identification.
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As the executive director of the Student Press Law Center from 2008 until August 2017, he launched the "New Voices" initiative to enact laws protecting student journalism.
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While governments may very well enact laws that are consistent with religious teaching, governments do not pass laws to be consistent with what any particular religion dictates.
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During the last several years, a handful of states have tried to enact laws tightening curbs on the identification voters must show in order to cast a ballot.
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Lawmakers have taken to holding legislative items hostage, making material demands when the time comes to pass budgets, allocate money for schools, confirm political appointees or enact laws.
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In 2014, the Council made New York one of the first cities to enact laws limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement officials in the detention of undocumented immigrants.
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Many states have interpreted the decision as a green light to enact laws to restrict the voting population in ways that predominantly affect racial minorities and the poor.
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Ellen Kurz is the founder and President of iVote, a voting rights advocacy organization that runs campaigns to elect officials and enact laws that will expand access to voting.
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Federal statutes leave child welfare mostly in the hands of each state, requiring that it enact laws to protect children from abuse and neglect without precisely defining those terms.
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Because broadband service crosses state lines, it can be difficult for states to enact laws to regulate it, even when they have the argument of "consumer protection" on their side.
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They have also successfully challenged efforts by the states of Washington, New Jersey, and Tennessee to enact laws that would limit legal impunity for businesses allegedly involved in child prostitution.
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Passed in the early 1990s with bipartisan support, RFRA was originally intended to ensure that the government had a "compelling interest" to enact laws that violated a person's religious beliefs.
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Last month, Representative Alcee L. Hastings, Democrat of Florida, introduced a resolution condemning the festival and urging China to enforce its food safety regulations and enact laws banning animal cruelty.
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Bondy's locals were critical of Le Pen: She might enact laws harmful to members of their community, and some parents worried for their children's future if she were to gain power.
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As someone with a pre-existing health condition, she says she knows first-hand how important it is to enact laws and policies that preserve and expand healthcare for Illinois families.
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Protesters set fire to Paraguay's congress after the ruling Colorado Party set up a separate senate to enact laws that would allow the president, Horacio Cartes, to run for re-election.
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That article required signing nations to enact laws to deter copyright crooks from cutting through the digital fences, like encryption, put around copyrighted works to prevent their illegal access or use.
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Will Hurd (R-Texas) said Sunday that Europe can't pretend to be more idealistic on privacy issues than the U.S. while many of its nations try to enact laws limiting encryption.
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Trump is urging states to enact laws that would allow them to confiscate weapons from legal gun owners who pose a risk to themselves or others until a court has intervened.
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Valentine's Day is a time for activism, for us to do our basic duty of forcing our leaders, our businesses and ourselves to enact laws that stop children from being murdered.
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But some legal analysts now say the Territorial Clause of the United States Constitution gives Congress authority to enact laws that would give Puerto Rico the ability to restructure without declaring bankruptcy.
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In June, Van Hollen introduced the Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act, a measure that would incentivize state and local environments to enact laws requiring individuals to obtain a license to purchase a handgun.
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But if Europe decides to fight with Washington, European governments could enact laws to legally require that SWIFT provide services to Iranian banks as long as the banks complied with European law.
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Booker proposes creating a "national Eviction Right to Counsel Fund" that will give federal funds to states that enact laws guaranteeing low-income people the right to legal counsel in eviction proceedings.
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Aden said that this novel charter indicates a new tactic: working directly with the industries that are producing the greenhouse gases, rather than waiting on governments to enact laws that regulate these industries.
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We must demand that our elected representatives enact laws that will enhance the core values of our nation, even if they cost money, rather than pass laws that diminish us as a nation.
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Texas and Arkansas, for example, have moved recently to enact laws similar to the North Carolina bill, known as H.B. 2, and could face the loss of future events if they become law.
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But as for letting governments take a peek at an ITI client's source code, or enact laws to steer the safe and ethical development of AI, that's something it's a bit less enthused about.
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The government will also enact laws to innovate consumption in sectors including the sharing economy, where people rent out cars, homes and even pets to strangers for a fee, often over a mobile phone platform.
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While some states are rushing to enact laws, the most harmful bill is the so called "Remote Transaction Parity Act" (RTPA) as it would have implications across all 46 states that impose a sales tax.
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" Her opinion concluded: "I do not think it wise for judges to close their eyes to reliable legislative history — and the realities of how members of Congress create and enact laws — when it is available.
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The Massachusetts progressive intends to collect improved data on international financial transactions, enact laws requiring shell companies to reveal their beneficiaries, strengthen real estate disclosure mandates and improve campaign finance law to prevent foreign interference.
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What started in the Golden State in the early 2900th century as a progressive reform has become a means for various interest groups to enact laws, from capping property taxes to regulating the pornography industry.
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But now that lawmakers have woken up to the potential harms of leaving the industry free from regulation, states and countries around the world are working quickly to enact laws that will protect their constituents.
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"[T]he constitution does not allow elected officials to enact laws that distort the marketplace of political ideas so as to intentionally favour certain political beliefs, parties or candidates and disfavour others", Judge James Wynn wrote.
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Details: Article 23 of the Basic Law, the mini constitution of Hong Kong, says the territory "shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition and subversion" against the Chinese government.
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First, in the short term — stabilize the insurance marketplace and enact laws to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, and second come up with a long term solution — whether that is a continuation of ObamaCare or not.
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Cities and towns that build their own internet have found themselves squarely in the crosshairs of telecom lobbyists and lawyers, who have managed to enact laws making it difficult or illegal to build government-owned networks.
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Maryland, Nevada, and Michigan are hoping to enact laws that allow same-day voter registration, automatic voter registration, or both, while Arkansas and North Carolina wish for voter restrictions by issuing changes on voter ID laws.
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Casey, he joined Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David H. Souter in a joint opinion that upheld Roe, saying that states could not enact laws that placed an "undue burden" on women's access to an abortion.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday urged Colombians to shun vengeance after a bloody 50-year civil war but said leaders had to enact laws to end the "darkness" of injustice and social inequality that breeds violence.
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The economic success of cities and towns with fiber is also causing many conservative politicians, many of whom have helped enact laws that help incumbent telecom, to rethink the idea that "big government" projects are automatically bad.
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While the Fight for $213.50 has won major victories — getting Seattle, California and New York State to enact laws calling for a $215 minimum wage — the movement has not achieved its goal of unionizing fast-food workers.
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He rejected arguments that the law allowed for such a federal prosecution because Congress has a right to regulate commerce or health care or can enact laws to support international treaties that the United States has signed.
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This harsh climate and these campaign tactics have inspired yet another rise in sentiment against L.G.B.T.I. people and emboldened the government's resolve to enact laws that outlaw or severely limit organizing by them and other human rights advocates.
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The federal guidance to healthcare providers and insurers to provide nondiscriminatory care to transgender patients comes amid a growing movement to enact laws at the state and local level that would place barriers to care for transgender people.
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When they are blocked from voting, anti-woman legislators get elected, and then they enact laws that harm women in all communities, or block beneficial policies like paid leave, equal pay, or an increase in the minimum wage.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Tuesday urged the government to enact laws separate to those against murder to act as a deterrent against lynchings, following a series of attacks in which mobs have beaten people to death.
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Guruswamy said the concern was that if the court were to throw out privacy as a basic right, it would give the state much greater powers to monitor people and to enact laws with an impact on personal freedoms.
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Trump's recent comments about how hard it is to enact laws in Congress and apparent unfamiliarity with details of his own health care reform plan have also raised doubts about the depth of his understanding of Washington and the presidency.
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She said Louisiana, which has only three abortion clinics, is trying to enact laws to close clinics that are identical to a Texas effort that was struck down by the Supreme Court two years ago in Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt.
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Many Democrats smell a rout, hope that a slew of Republicans go down with Trump, and fantasize about a subsequent Democratic dominance in Washington that will allow the party to enact laws without much if any Republican input and assistance.
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Jeff Siner/Charlotte Observer/MCT via Getty Images "You cannot enact laws that deny or diminish the right to vote for African Americans and Latinos," Donita Judge, an attorney with the Advancement Project, a civil rights group, previously told me.
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The plan resulted in an energy crisis that sent power bills soaring, prompted billions in penalties against utilities and banks for manipulating the new electricity market, and led Congress to enact laws to help prevent it all from happening again.
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"What a democrat never does is to use or abuse this huge (parliamentary) majority to dismantle the system of checks and balances in the country ... that makes it impossible to enact laws when they are in contradiction to the Polish constitution," Verhofstadt said.
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The Justice Department is exploring "what avenues might be available" to criminally charge state and local officials who enact laws or guidelines limiting cooperation with federal immigration policies, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week.
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"They've been working on this for six years, and if the economy's good and banks are doing fine … I think the way that Congress sees that is, that's fine, but they have to enact laws that are for the long term," he said.
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"We can expect that number (of compromised records) to grow significantly, especially as government regulations in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere enact laws to protect the privacy and data of their constituents by associating a monetary value to improperly securing data," said Hart.
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It granted him increased powers allowing him to retake his position as the head of the A.K.P.; scrap the position of the prime minister; appoint judges, and ministers; prepare the budget and enact laws by decree; and dismiss the Parliament, among other things.
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Hellerstedt, the Court issued a resounding affirmation of reality, stating plainly and in no uncertain terms that states cannot simply make up their own facts about women's health and abortion care in order to enact laws that restrict abortion access or shame and punish women.
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Imperfect and inadequate legislation are currently the biggest barriers to the implementation of PPP projects, and it is also difficult to enact laws because there is no unified understanding of the problems involved, the Ministry of Finance's deputy head of law, Lai Yongtian said.
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Article 23 of Hong Kong's constitution, Basic Law, calls on the city's government to "enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government," but so far, repeated administrations have dragged their feet on doing so.
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"The political establishment cannot retroactively enact laws that prohibit individuals who become members of some political parties from being on the ballot while allowing individuals who become members of other political parties to be on the ballot," Blankenship said in a media release posted to Facebook .
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We call on lawmakers to act swiftly to enact laws to turn the tide on this growing epidemic – raising the legal purchase of all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes to 21, adding e-cigarettes to the states smoke free air law and taxing e-cigarettes the same as regular combustible cigarettes.
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"We're at a pivotal moment in human history," Evan Greer, deputy director of nonprofit technology advocacy group Fight for the Future, told Gizmodo in July after the organization launched a website calling on Americans to contact their state, local, and federal lawmakers to enact laws banning the government from using face recognition tech.
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"This Court's decisions in the 1870s to invalidate federal voting rights legislation paved the way for Southern states to enact laws that effectively barred African Americans from exercising their right to vote for many generations," the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights told the justices in a friend-of-the-court brief.
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Doctors are willing to give up balance billing, when a patient is billed for the difference between what the provider charges and what insurance covers, to better protect their patients in this way, and are working hard to enact laws throughout the country, similar to what New York and Connecticut have already done.
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" Article 23 While pro-democrats are very keen to see Basic Law Articles 45 and 2000 -- which relate to universal suffrage -- implemented, they are less supportive of Article 218, which requires the Hong Kong government to "enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government.
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That provision allows Hong Kong "to enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government" — or, potentially, to invoke China's national security interests in order to muffle political dissent in the city or the local separatist movement (an offshoot of the 23 Umbrella Revolution).
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We don't ask people who pay taxes to support a social safety net to also demonstrate that commitment through philanthropic action, and similarly we shouldn't ask anyone — and certainly not everyone — to manage his or her own carbon footprint before we even really try to enact laws and policies that would reduce all of our emissions.
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Judging from the official and news sources Felgenhauer catalogs, Moscow appears poised to enact laws and regulations that go far, far beyond what the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea — the closest thing the world has to a constitution governing the world's oceans and seas — permits in a coastal state's "territorial sea" the 12-nautical-mile belt of water that lies just offshore.
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Along with the question of how to issue DUIs for marijuana users, there's debates to be had over whether and how to expunge the records of drug offenders, how licensing should work for legal cannabis businesses, and how to enact laws that actually bring an end to black market weed businesses, which has so far been a struggle in states that have legalized pot.
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Turkey seems to have voted yesterday to greatly expand the powers of President Recep Erdogan, choosing to add 18 amendments to its constitution, which in part: Abolish the role of prime minister in favor of a vice president Grant the president unilateral power to dismiss parliament, appoint ministers and judges, enact laws, and declare a state of emergency Reset Erdogan's term limits, allowing him to potentially stay in office until 2029 It's worth asking: As the opposition moves to challenge a huge portion of the vote share and international monitors question the result, how did Turkey get to this point in the first place?
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As of this week, there have been 695 cases of measles in the U.S. across more than 20 states this…Read more ReadAmong other demands, Ratzan and his co-authors are calling for social media outlets and search engines to more aggressively monitor and police the dissemination of false anti-vax propaganda (including that vaccines can cause autism), which Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube have already begun to do; for doctors and health officials to find ways to convince reluctant or hesitant parents to vaccinate for the good of their children and community; and for governments to enact laws that strip non-medical exemptions for mandatory vaccinations.
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