But politically and legislatively, ending DACA could open the floodgates.
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But most of the big stuff has to happen legislatively. . .
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It is now legislatively "severable" from regionalization, in the lingo.
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But that would face fierce resistance and be legislatively difficult.
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Lawmakers attempted to strip the regulation off the books legislatively.
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They've been involved with advocating legislatively for good housing laws.
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I mean, do you set a price, you know, legislatively?
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"I think there's more we can do legislatively," Portman said.
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Republicans nonetheless felt pressured to respond legislatively to the Orlando massacre.
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But legislatively, action on drug prices will be a tough sell.
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"I think ultimately, we've got to fix it legislatively," Meadows said.
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Stymied legislatively, Mr. Obama in 2012 instituted DACA via executive order.
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KS: And what's against the idea of doing that here legislatively?
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Statutes that are unconstitutional as written are void "ab initio" — legislatively stillborn.
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But that doesn't necessarily mean it's legislatively the right thing to do.
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"I've never been an opponent of legislatively directed resources," Pelosi told reporters.
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And no repeal and replace of Obamacare (or much else, legislatively speaking).
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Seeing Roe endangered, the anti-abortion movement has become more legislatively audacious.
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A Democratic majority come 2019 wouldn't be able to do much legislatively.
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Legislatively, Mr. Trump has supported bills that would have undermined those protections.
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Wright pointed out that both Warren and Klobuchar "have great records legislatively."
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"Legislatively it's going to be a big challenge" for Clinton, he added.
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Rather, it is an important initial step in legislatively addressing this problem.
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Lawmakers are warning that they could push back legislatively on Trump's decision.
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So, they couldn&apost win it legislatively, so they go in the judiciary.
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The optics have to look like we can get something through legislatively, eventually.
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And the Congress has always been the one that legislatively writes the bills.
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While many other lawmakers support the idea of legislatively preventing future shutdowns, Rep.
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Large-scale action seems impossibly fraught—too politically risky, and too legislatively complex.
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"I think the Flores decision has to be dealt with legislatively," said Sen.
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The officials predicted that January will be a busy month for Republicans legislatively.
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Democratic leaders in Congress are evaluating how to respond legislatively to the crisis.
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Rather than legislatively restrict solitary confinement, they've agreed to implement administrative changes for now.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We shouldn&apost do anything legislatively until we can reconnect these children.
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Except that Trump's daily dramas are invariably self-destructive — legislatively, politically, legally and grammatically.
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"If there's a path to doing it legislatively, that might be preferable," Howitt said.
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Cillizza: What else happened that's worth noting in this most recent session, legislatively speaking?
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Trump ended DACA, but Democrats and several Republicans are hoping to legislatively fix it.
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Rubio suggested the partial repeal, instead of a total ObamaCare overhaul, would pass legislatively.
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It can also legislatively dismantle the court-created doctrines that are gutting harassment law.
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Legislatively -- and from a policy perspective -- the effect of Trump's increased Trumpiness is cloudier.
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Democrats will try to weigh in legislatively on Mr. Trump's business holdings next week.
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"So, I think that door remains open to look at this legislatively," he said.
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Congress may have missed the most recent opportunity to appropriate the payments legislatively, however.
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John Cornyn of Texas suggested that universal background checks would not be legislatively possible.
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Around two dozen states pushed back after the FCC vote, legislatively and with executive action.
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Whatever he hopes to do legislatively, she hopes to fight back through art and culture.
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But, the short speech only served to highlight just how little Trump has done legislatively.
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Last year, Vermont made history as the first state ever to legalize recreational marijuana legislatively.
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Since then, not a single medical marijuana bill passed legislatively has allowed for home cultivation.
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Andrew Cuomo of New York took up the cause legislatively, while Republicans like former Gov.
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It's expected to legislatively "ripen" this week so a vote is possible, but not set.
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Now, the Trump administration seeks to achieve by administrative policy what it could not do legislatively.
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"[The executive order] gives us at least some time to deal with it legislatively," said Labrador.
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" He dismissed the notion that the request is legislatively justified, saying, "No one actually believes this.
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That move is designed to give Congress six months to act to preserve the program legislatively.
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But Republicans, who consider the rule regulatory overreach, have looked to block it legislatively as well.
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Today, voters in 239 states, excluding Delaware, must vote on and approve legislatively referred constitutional amendments.
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Today's stipends are not driven by the market, but are set according to legislatively established formulas.
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And Senate Democrats would prove Hamilton right by filibustering any effort to gut the deal legislatively.
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Questions that might otherwise be settled legislatively are instead the object of arcane legal and constitutional wrangling.
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" She added, "There will be a giant, strong, vigorous pushback on efforts — in the courts and legislatively.
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Relevant committees could then call for Mr. Mueller to testify, as they weighed a path forward legislatively.
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And several states expanded background checks and legislatively enacted other limitations on gun possession by dangerous individuals.
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If you were Paul Ryan, what are two or three things you'd go all in on legislatively?
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The Democrats in the Senate, after all, only need a handful of Republicans to fight Trump legislatively.
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After announcing on Tuesday he would end the program, Trump called on lawmakers to resolve DACA legislatively.
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Bottom line: This was probably the last chance this year to get something done legislatively on DACA.
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It's important to note that these proposals remain legislatively unpopular, even in states with strong pro-gun populations.
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But behind the scenes, they are also trying to determine what type of president Trump will be legislatively.
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This showed that attorneys-general can shape policy through litigation even where Congress fails to do so legislatively.
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For Trump's part, he has increasingly shown a willingness to take his ball and go home, legislatively speaking.
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The administration wants the judiciary to do what it could not win legislatively: eliminate the entire 22012 law.
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"I'll leave it up to Congress to decide whether it's appropriate to address this legislatively," Spicer told reporters.
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If you have spent your career brutalizing and dehumanizing women legislatively rather than personally, you are no better.
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"You get small bites accomplished legislatively, while you're also having a conversation with the larger issues," he said.
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Moreover, she points out, "Republican legislators voted against doing DACA legislatively," when they voted against the Dream Act.
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Mr. Trump's hesitation has created an opening for lawmakers who have long wished to address the issue legislatively.
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The issue of drug pricing has global implications and, thus, is appropriately left for Congress to address legislatively.
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After 2016, Rubio will leave the Senate after concluding one term in office and having accomplished very little legislatively.
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So legislatively — [Walks into a meeting] What was your takeaway from President Trump's tweet on North Korea last night?
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U.S. legislators have already done much to legislatively ring-fence the president on NATO on the alliance's 70th anniversary.
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Legislatively, there will be a number of opportunities for individuals to get involved; this week was a perfect example.
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Turkey was kicked out of the F-35 program as a result and could still face legislatively mandated sanctions.
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He called on Republicans on Sunday "to do whatever they can do legislatively" to stop Trump from imposing tariffs.
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And legislatively, Democrats should reestablish the Office of Technology Assessment, an important source of expert scientific information and reform.
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"If he wants to do something legislatively in 2019, this sets the table," The Daily Beast's Matt Lewis wrote.
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The public defender commission, which oversees the office, is currently suing the governor for vetoing legislatively approved budget increases.
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Democrats are also likely to resist any effort to change the Antiquities Act legislatively, another goal of Trump's order.
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"The Council is working to do as much as it can legislatively to help all drivers," the spokesman said.
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"Legislatively defunding Planned Parenthood is off the table," said Andrew Taverrite, a spokesman for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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But with both houses of the Illinois Legislature controlled by Democrats, Governor Rauner could not achieve his goals legislatively.
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Illinois will remain in focus, after it made history last year with the first legislatively-enacted recreational cannabis program.
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He urged Congress to adopt the same protections legislatively, offering a six-month window for lawmakers to do so.
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George H.W. Bush, who died on Friday at age 19463, was probably best remembered, legislatively, for his 1990 budget deal.
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However, changing adult human DNA is notoriously difficult (scientifically and legislatively), and changing fetal DNA is both tricky and controversial.
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North Dakota is a state that's not only legislatively hostile to queer folks but also geographically difficult to live in.
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However, if the deficit hasn't hit that target, Congress would have to debate the issue and raise the limit legislatively.
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And while drones are still legislatively controversial, placing slick stores in global cities could be helpful for demystifying the technology.
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"If Republicans keep control of the House, as they're likely to... legislatively, not much is going to happen," Krikorian says.
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Though a federal court has already put the rule on hold, Republicans say ending it legislatively is important as well.
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For instance, for the first time in recent history, more initiatives are certified for the ballot than legislatively referred amendments.
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"If you look at what he did legislatively, domestically it's unparalleled and maybe second to FDR the greatest American president."
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In addition, Trump will desperately need the support of key heartland Republican senators if he hopes to accomplish anything legislatively.
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A Senate aide said "stakeholders were able to weigh in with what they considered their priorities legislatively" at the meetings.
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That includes a legislatively mandated target of reducing carbon emissions in California to 21970 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.
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"With all the increase in shootings, we have to do something legislatively to try to prevent that from happening," Rep.
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Substantive efforts to solve the problem, whether legislatively or through regulation, are either not discussed or are not followed through.
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Max Rose, the freshman Democratic congressman from Staten Island, argues that Borelli's legislatively mandated study can have only salutary effects.
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"Now I say promising, but I don't know what it looks like legislatively … the key word is promising," Graham said.
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They would allow immigrants who qualified for DACA to get temporary "provisional" status — essentially codifying DACA legislatively — for three years.
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Most of Klobuchar's action on tech has, obviously, taken place legislatively or in the form of committee hearings and oversight.
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But any effort to block the ban legislatively will fail without support from the Republicans who control both houses of Congress.
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If he hopes to get his nominees confirmed or get anything at all done legislatively, he really does need the leader.
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Though a federal court has already put the rule on hold, Republicans said say ending it legislatively is important as well.
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By combining the tax cut bill and the repeal of the individual mandate, Republicans are going for broke -- legislatively and politically.
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They're eyeing resolutions to block the declaration legislatively, as well as possible legal challenges that could tie Trump's hands for months.
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"That's the only fundamental change we've been able to make to Obamacare, legislatively, and rates were a disaster before," said Rep.
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The 2010 and 2014 cycles were devastating for the party, especially legislatively, and a not very good 2016 did not help.
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To legislatively oppose abortion is to be, at best, indifferent to the disenfranchisement, suffering and possibly even the death of women.
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"The bottom line is that Chuck Schumer basically controls the state of play in the Senate and therefore legislatively," Gregg said.
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At the White House, officials are privately doubtful that much work will get done legislatively with Congress in an impeachment uproar.
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Bottom line: Republican sources with direct knowledge of the current state of play express significant skepticism of anything major happening legislatively.
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Obviously, nothing will happen legislatively as long as the Republicans control the Senate and Mr. Trump sits in the White House.
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They don't want him "speaking lewdly" but they don't mind if he strips away her rights to control her body, legislatively.
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I've said it before, but this is a remarkably rapid timetable for legislatively restructuring such an immense portion of the US economy.
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It has to go through a public comment process, and Congress could, if it desires, reverse the rule or legislatively preempt it.
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"Time is running out, frankly, and I think we have to move legislatively to set in motion a framework of disclosure," Sen.
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According to a study by the Otto Brenner Stiftung, a think-tank, AfD MPs are typically noisy and fractious, but legislatively active.
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We can legislatively limit the amount of debt loaded onto companies, which has been the catalyst for so many of these failures.
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McCain's joy in the face of a diagnosis that would terrify almost anyone may not make a damn bit of difference legislatively.
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Blunt said that he is concerned about the allegations, but he has confidence that the issue could be solved legally or legislatively.
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"If we just do this legislatively without active involvement of technology companies, we are not going to get it right," Warner warned.
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The rule has been temporarily blocked by a federal court pending litigation, but Republicans have hoped to block it legislatively as well.
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"We've got to be real careful and whether it's legislatively or in court, fight him every step of the way," Schumer said.
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"We haven't spent as much time on that as trying to do some of the things more administratively than legislatively," Meadows said.
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"I'm glad he's being innovative and I'm fully supportive of helping him build the wall however we can can legislatively," Scalise added.
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Some have suggested that rather than legislatively mandating a backdoor, the FBI will simply have to get better at hacking encrypted devices.
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"We haven't spent as much time on that as trying to do some of the things more administratively than legislatively," Meadows said.
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Of course, all of the potential solutions that Trump chose not to implement with his declaration Thursday could still be accomplished legislatively.
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"We will be putting out specific principles that the White House supports and would like to see done legislatively," Ms. Sanders said.
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There's a big difference, potentially even with Democrats, between passing something legislatively and using executive authority to do something of this size.
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Another option for the GOP would be blocking the payouts legislatively, perhaps by inserting language into a year-end government funding bill.
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In Europe, Germany may have fiscal space to spend but the government could find it hard to do so legislatively, he said.
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A number of states allow for citizen-initiated referenda and many permit public votes on legislatively-initiated state constitutional amendments and statutes.
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Congress can still legislatively block these rules, but now must follow the regular legislative process that is subject to a potential filibuster.
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If the justices were to find aid in dying legal, "I think it would be very influential, judicially and legislatively," he said.
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For Bloomberg, that could mean a whole suite of new agency rules, all at once, alongside whatever may be going on legislatively.
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But the main reasons it hasn't been legislatively productive pertain to the objective national situation and the bungling of GOP congressional leaders.
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Turning to the nation's debt limit -- a legislatively imposed halt to the government's borrowing capabilities -- Ryan insisted there was no cause for concern.
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It's a new kind of company, the likes of which the American economy has never before seen and is legislatively ill-prepared for.
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Additionally, senators are worried that the impeachment battle has effectively shot down any chance to pass anything legislatively heading into an election year.
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GARRETT: Senator Rubio... (APPLAUSE) For the purposes of the lines — lines you would draw legislatively as a president on immigration reform, define amnesty.
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By holding hearings on their high-priority targets for Dodd-Frank reform, Republicans could shed light on how they'll tackle these issues legislatively.
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Indeed, cities like New York could legislatively bar the denial of service based on political identity so long as it protects all viewpoints.
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That optimism is a backdrop for lawmakers in Congress, who split along party lines about how to legislatively tackle election security (The Hill).
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"I think his instincts on this are right," Flake said Monday of Trump and past positive statements he's made about preserving DACA legislatively.
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If DACA is repealed and nothing is put in its place legislatively, these 1.5 million kids will live in constant fear and anxiety.
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I started this latest round of the debate with the presumption that supporters of moderate gun restrictions are popularly strong but legislatively weak.
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He could withdraw the president's executive order and let Congress address the young immigrants legislatively, which several lawmakers crave to do next year.
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Mr. Mulvaney acknowledged that changes made to the structures of government agencies by executive authority are not as enduring as those made legislatively.
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"I don't think rushing out right now legislatively is probably the place we need to be," Corker told reporters at the U.S. Capitol.
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For practical purposes, the dark visions of repealing ObamaCare and eviscerating Medicaid have been rejected by the American people and are legislatively dead.
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I'm saying, how have the UK government legislatively settled on a logical outcome where Tyler the Creator can be guilty and Donald Trump can't?
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In the months following, both California and Colorado legislatively banned the use of punitive solitary in juvenile facilities for periods longer than four hours.
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In the US, some form of legislatively approved MAID/PAS (but not active euthanasia) is legal in five states and the District of Columbia.
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This bill is still in its infancy, legislatively speaking, and will likely be heavily modified, especially the enforceable compliance agreement's moratorium on enforcement actions.
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It's a federal right under the Constitution and certainly this would be something we would pursue legislatively or take it to the Justice Department.
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Lindsey Graham told reporters that he would take steps legislatively on a protection bill for Mueller and let Trump deal with the DOJ himself.
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Members of Congress largely say they want to preserve the program legislatively, but have failed to pass anything in two opportunities to do so.
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Even Mr. Trump's deregulatory agenda, which he has been pursuing administratively rather than legislatively, could be harmed by a government closure, Mr. Boltansky said.
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At a Milken Institute conference Monday in California, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Mr. Trump had abandoned the idea of combining the issues legislatively.
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have tried to undo his climate work legislatively, and state Republicans have challenged him, with some success, in the courts.
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He also is able to use this obsession with his personal fortunes to get the Democrats to take their eyes off the ball legislatively.
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His shift effectively makes him more proactive, legislatively, on the issue — and would, if it eventually gets through Congress, upend decades of federal drug policy.
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Even Lankford and Tillis, who proposed the SUCCEED Act this week, say their bill should only be part of the proposal to legislatively address DACA.
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She said Democrats in the House want to see if they can deliver something legislatively now that they are set to take control in January.
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"The calendar is up to Republicans: They have to decide what they're going to do legislatively, and how they're going to do it," Binder says.
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Achieving these things politically, legislatively, and practically with the whole community will provide the approaches and illustrative examples so desperately needed to build national resilience.
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The administration's demands to legislatively do away with the TVPRA and FSA have been a key sticking point in attempts at negotiations on immigration reform.
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It's Trump's first outing of what his staff expects will be a tax reform sales tour covering the Rust Belt and other legislatively important states.
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But Carper added that the senators were looking for "areas of agreement" to find how to legislatively help the agencies better care for the minors.
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"When we win in 2018, we will then ensure accountability on this and begin the process of reversing legislatively what has happened," Senator Markey said.
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Legislatively the GOP knows that they must pass a tax cut bill of some sort; they must have a legislative victory going into 2018; 24.
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The SHARE Act undermines the Endangered Species Act by legislatively delisting wolves in the Midwest despite two federal court decisions that wolves still need protections.
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Get the operation up and going, create relationship continuity with the establishment GOP in Congress, and move the ball legislatively to achieve the president's agenda.
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Months ago, back before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, I argued that the US Senate would determine whether he'd succeed or fail, legislatively.
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But at the end of the day, we have to leverage every tool available to us, legislatively, within our courts, on the grassroots mobilization side.
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The administration has yet to implement a legislatively mandated time limit of four years on cash assistance programs for poor parents who are capable of working.
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But while Democratic congressional majorities would likely lead to a lot of subpoenas and legal wrangling, there's also a fair chance they could be legislatively productive.
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The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday called for the panel to respond legislatively to the recent fatal stabbing in Portland, Oregon.
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Rather than legislatively reform this administrative state that is smothering our economy, we prefer to have the Fed just issue money to paper it all over.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said last week that there is "not much" Congress could do legislatively if Trump presses forward with the tariffs.
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After having achieved what the naysayers and many Beltway insiders admitted was the impossible, they quickly pivoted to the impossibility of moving the ball forward legislatively.
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"They know it would have no shot of succeeding legislatively which is why they are working with big labor to enact it administratively," the aide said.
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They point out that in 20133, when the legislatively mandated budget cuts known as sequestration hit HUD, more than 100,000 renters nationwide lost their housing support.
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"Until we legislatively fix it," he said, "it's going to be the whims of any mayor or police department to do with it what they want."
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Harrison describes Graham as a "political chameleon that changes his stripes and colors to benefit himself" and slammed him for getting "slim to none" done legislatively.
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But both could be said to accomplish legislatively what Mr. Trump boasted, in the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape, that he likes to do to women physically.
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But you might be excused for thinking so, given the curt wave-off the House speaker delivered to the liberally ballyhooed, legislatively stillborn Green New Deal.
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With this explicit statutory limitation on a president's power to exclude, the Ninth Circuit concluded, Mr Trump's executive order exceeded the bounds of his legislatively delegated authority.
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Commissioners are expected to face intense questioning from lawmakers about their efforts to combat the onslaught of robocalls, something many members are attempting to remedy themselves legislatively.
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The delay will put extraordinary political pressure on a Republican-held Congress that has so far not been successful legislatively and may be lukewarm to the cause.
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There's zero benefit for him, politically or legislatively, to engage honestly on the question of whether the President behaved wrongly in the course of the Mueller investigation.
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"Well, that's what you have to do in order to function legislatively, so I'm not worried about it at all," McConnell added of concerns over Trump's effectiveness.
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As lawmakers, there is work to be done legislatively; passing the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act was a good first step, but there is more we can do.
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As passionate as both sides of this debate are, bypassing a gridlocked Congress to do that which could not be done legislatively is not the right path.
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The hope is that this proposal will be a call to action to bring change legislatively, in public opinion, and throughout our country, lifting up every American.
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Among Pelosi's proudest feats, she told me, was keeping enough Democrats together to routinely vote against the G.O.P.'s incessant efforts to legislatively chip away at Obamacare.
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And not all Democrats are ready to abolish the procedural tactic that allows the minority to tie up the majority legislatively if it cannot secure 60 votes.
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"Legislatively, September may be the longest month of the year, with several must pass items that face an uphill climb," said Doug Heye, a longtime Republican strategist.
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He will begin work in September as a fellow for the No Exceptions Prison Collective, a organization in Nashville that legally and legislatively advocates improved prison conditions.
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He may not be removable by the impeachment process, but is not a king; he is a widely hated, legislatively constrained president facing a difficult re-election.
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They agreed that something needed to be done legislatively about the high costs seniors pay for medicines and mentioned their copay coupons and other forms of assistance.
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With a Republican-controlled Senate and a president uninterested in or openly opposing the left's agenda, the new House majority is legislatively "hamstrung," Vox's Ella Nilsen notes.
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Legislatively, it's possible that some members of Congress will feel less urgency in passing a bill to address the status of DACA recipients as quickly as possible.
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"I'd want to make sure that whatever I do legislatively is based on the positions I have and not based on some positions someone else has," he said.
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Administrations often try to achieve through the courts what they cannot legislatively -- and the Trump team along with allied GOP states has been especially enthusiastic in this regard.
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The position of mayor in West York -- which according to a US census estimate has about 4,500 people in it -- is unpaid and Wasko cannot be removed legislatively.
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BAIER: Yes, Mollie, it seems like it&aposs common sense that this thing was not set up legislatively and would need to if it had to go forward.
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While the Trump administration has tried to claim that, actually, they are not mad at all that they have gotten nothing done legislatively, they are very mad indeed.
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The state Constitution requires legislatively approved amendments for matters as trivial as local traffic laws, resulting in what has been described as the longest constitution in the world.
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This refusal to engage legislatively ultimately led to Obama's decision to use his executive authority to extend protections for people who had entered the country illegally as children.
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Through her leadership, the Obama administration seized on a moment when America started paying attention to food, and made fighting obesity a top priority — both symbolically and legislatively.
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The census date of April 1 is written into the federal census act and would need to be changed legislatively for a delay to be constitutional, she said.
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Back over in the House, some members hope all the attention encourages companies to start righting their own ships lest Congress take the helm and compel them legislatively.
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It's unlikely Republicans will return to repealing ObamaCare legislatively, but the White House is still seeking changes — that Democrats view as sabotage — to President Obama's signature domestic achievement.
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Attempts to circumvent the court's orders legislatively, by introducing a law to make the settlements legal by forcing the owners of the land to accept compensation, have failed.
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Beto O'Rourke's (D-Texas) comment that "hell yes, we're going to take" assault-style rifles is unhelpful but noted that no one has proposed such a thing legislatively.
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And it's clear that in general, long prison sentences — whether the result of judicial discretion or legislatively mandated minimum sentencing — end up disproportionately hurting the poor and underprivileged.
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In 2004, Congress engaged in its first attempt to legislatively stop inversions and limited companies' borrowing for earnings stripping to 50 percent of their earnings in the United States.
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And given their Democratic friends, well, perfect cover for having to vote on many controversial left-wing issues that they would never get at the ballot box or legislatively.
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"It's created interesting alliances and probably is the number one topic for legislatively addressing an issue for the remainder of this year," House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said.
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Since the plan is being released late in Obama's time in office, congressional Republicans could try legislatively to overturn the plan or open the Arctic or Atlantic to drilling.
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Under Paxton's threat, Trump and his administration decided to end the program in September, with a wind-down period ostensibly to allow Congress to act to save it legislatively.
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What portion of the revenue earned by sports betting operators that ultimately trickles down to state coffers to fund legislatively earmarked programs widely varies, largely depending on tax rates.
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In each of these jurisdictions, proponents of marijuana policy reform were forced to bring the issue directly to the voters because elected officials steadfastly refused to address it legislatively.
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"You'd expect a president with a working majority of his own party in Congress to do more legislatively than the Republicans achieved in 2017 and 2018," Rudalevige told Insider.
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Outside care would be streamlined through the creation of a single, easily understood program to authorize care around the course of medical treatment -- not arbitrary, legislatively imposed time limits.
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" Legislatively, Robinson declared, "Our supporters, affiliates, and volunteers are going to push for policies to advance access to sexual and reproductive health care in all 50 states this year.
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He said he has been a longtime supporter of groups that seek greater gun control but felt that their approach focused mostly on raising money and seeking changes legislatively.
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It's a blunt weapon that demands significant Medicare cuts to be applied over a one-year period in order to bring spending levels back down to legislatively-selected targets.
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Yes, more conservative legislatures may naturally seek stronger religious freedom protections than their blue state counterparts, but this does not discredit the entire enterprise of legislatively addressing these issues.
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Second, they thought it would be legislatively easier to write an Obamacare repeal bill, because they intended to put off the hard work of creating an actual replacement until later.
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But Democrats say the battle over players kneeling in the NFL is a distraction from the fact that Republicans run every chamber of government and can't get anything done legislatively.
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According defendants that second chance by allowing judges to take that second look, through a legislatively-enacted new Rule 35 (modeled after the old Rule), is one way to begin.
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"I want to work very closely with you over the next few months to do whatever we can legislatively in working with your department," he told the Homeland Security head.
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Accusations and insults have been flowing thick and fast between the local, provincial and national tiers of government, each with its own legislatively determined role in the water procurement process.
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The Trump administration has decided to phase out the program, and while there is bipartisan support for addressing the issue legislatively, lawmakers disagree over how and when to do it.
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Ryan meanwhile showcased his "A Better Way" agenda, flashing a glossy pamphlet at a press conference listing proposals designed to lure votes in November but do nothing this year legislatively.
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What the bill would do The bill would seek to lessen the impact of mandatory minimums, legislatively enforced minimum sentences that prevent judges from setting sentences below a certain threshold.
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"We provide contributions to candidates and elected officials who, in their work legislatively are at work on issues that have an impact on our business," said Sutton, the Altria spokesman.
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That's to say that Clinton will be inheriting a presidency that looks a lot like Barack Obama's, meaning she'll have to deal with an extremely hostile and legislatively powerful opposition party.
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It's an uncertain moment, and a moment of transition: a book that roiled the president more than anyone expected, and a year that looks much tougher, legislatively and otherwise, than last.
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Instead, Young sought to defend the secretary, suggesting that the administration's proposed fiscal 2018 budget still was following the law by funding SNAP and that any changes would be made legislatively.
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The president and the Congress are given the chance to do something legislatively that is substantive and hopefully helpful to those of us who populate this wondrous country beyond the Beltway.
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With the midterms looming, the party still has next-to-nothing to show, legislatively, for its year of unified control of Washington and Trump's approval ratings seem anchored in the 30s.
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While this directive is a good first step, there's still more work to be done legislatively to protect children who use this technology and I will continue to monitor this situation.
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" The foundation considers the practice discriminatory, and Ms. Mulhern-Pearson has requested a meeting with California's state insurance department "to see if there's anything we can do legislatively or through regulation.
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Yet the emergence of the Ebola and Zika viruses a little more than a decade later startled lawmakers into the knowledge that we are still structurally and legislatively underprepared for biothreats.
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But Republicans were frantic to do something big legislatively and a tax bill was the obvious policy area where they could come to agreement, even if it didn't come very easily.
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The short version is that letting impeachment go forward will almost certainly damage the Republican Party brand, cost Republicans seats in 2018 and '20, and prevent them from getting anything done legislatively.
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The announcement of all that new celebrity muscle dovetails perfectly with the November arrival of the UFC at Madison Square Garden, long the much-desired-but-legislatively-elusive feather in MMA's cap.
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Congress could also pass an outright prohibition, but it would surely be vetoed by the President -- and there's nowhere near a veto-proof majority currently to make such a provocative move legislatively.
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Trump and his White House will dictate where the party goes legislatively -- tax reform appears to be next -- not only over the coming weeks, but over the coming months and even years.
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Legislatively, Merkley also put himself on the map with his push to get breastfeeding rights included in Obamacare, and he's continued to introduce legislation to expand those rights to cover salaried workers.
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The bigger picture: Defunding Planned Parenthood is one of the Trump administration's biggest priorities, and it's looking for ways to do it since Congress doesn't have enough votes to do it legislatively.
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While a majority of ballot measures work like this — in other words, are legislatively referred — two other types of measures, initiatives and referendums, tend to attract more media attention, money and controversy.
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This is why Trump cut the deal, and this is why Republicans understand that they need to do something legislatively on this and support the deal the president cut with the Democrats.
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Over the recess, GOP senators and staff are expected to engage in discussions with Trump administration officials about what else could be done legislatively that could garner support from the White House.
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The culturally and legislatively enforced poverty, subjugation and mass incarceration of black people continue to this day, while white supremacist violence saturates our news media, whether it's identified as such or not.
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The Massachusetts senator has blasted Pai's decision to drop or scale back various net neutrality related proposals and established himself as a firm enemy of any efforts to legislatively curb net neutrality.
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The 20 midterms were one of the most significant elections in my lifetime — a liberal wave stopped cold, a Democratic administration legislatively frozen for six years, and a generation of partisan gerrymandering.
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Lopez Obrador has pledged to review the oil and gas contracts awarded under Pena Nieto's government if elected, and on Wednesday evening said his administration would consider unwinding the energy reform legislatively.
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Medical groups note that other outpatient procedures with higher complication and mortality rates, like colonoscopy and liposuction, are not legislatively mandated to be performed at ambulatory surgical centers by physicians with hospital privileges.
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As long as its members remain a holdout bloc making their support conditional on the granting of legislatively unworkable demands, House Republicans will have a great deal of trouble passing anything of consequence.
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David Beckmann, who is president of the anti-hunger organization Bread for the World, asked the lawmakers what they think can be done legislatively to tackle the systemic issues contributing to racial division.
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But if that were the case, Trump could have tried implementing DACA legislatively before rescinding Obama's version, instead of holding a gun to the heads of 20073,000 people and a do-nothing Congress.
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"But it is on the table, but it would have to be more from an administrative fix and then to see how we can fix it legislatively in a bipartisan way," he added.
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Adding new states, of course, requires Congress, too, but its ability to make the rest of the Democratic agenda politically viable makes it a natural candidate for discussions about what to prioritize legislatively.
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Nut what he actually pursued legislatively was a stimulus bill, the ACA, and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, followed by a failed effort to negotiate a Senate deal around cap and trade.
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"Vermont is poised to make history by becoming the first state to legalize marijuana cultivation and possession legislatively, rather than by ballot initiative," Matt Simon, New England policy director for the group, said.
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"I can't imagine, given the difficulty we had moving forward on the USA Freedom Act, that we could legislatively accomplish something where [we're] this far from consensus on the encryption issue," Schiff said.
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"There is serious and justified concern that this president would shut down the government any time he doesn't get his way legislatively," Pelosi said Wednesday at a gathering of the US Conference of Mayors.
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To put it in terms that Trump might understand: legislatively speaking, Pence, Ryan, McConnell and the radical Republican right have been "grabbing women by the p---y" (or the purse) for a long time.
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Further, Amash himself has always worked across the aisle, and at his most legislatively effective, he's had both renegade Democrats and Republicans on his side fighting for more privacy, less war, and sustainable spending.
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On Washington WASHINGTON — Stymied legislatively, President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell are turning their attention to one way they can skirt Democratic roadblocks and mollify unhappy Republicans — by filling scores of federal court vacancies.
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Advocates still see a lot of persuading to do — and it's an open question whether it's worth it to have a potentially politically toxic debate a that ultimately will mean not very much legislatively.
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But the confirmation of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch is likely to require a partisan maneuver that will inflame the already tense Senate and make it even harder to accomplish anything legislatively on Capitol Hill.
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"We hope to put it out late spring, early summer and we're going to continually hammer away at it legislatively and out in the country for the next year and a half," he said.
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Trump and the NRA also have said they oppose these devices but there is a debate over whether they should be banned legislatively or through a rule-making process carried out by the administration.
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Trump has repeatedly stressed that he would pick a running mate with political and government experience -- versus a businessman like himself -- whose relationships with powerful members of Congress could help him enact his agenda legislatively.
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Trump has repeatedly stressed that he would pick a running mate with political and government experience -- versus a businessman like himself -- whose relationships with powerful members of Congress could help him pass his agenda legislatively.
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The face of anti-democratic rule in America is President George W. Bush appointing Supreme Court justices who handed down a Citizens United ruling whose substance would have been far too unpopular to enact legislatively.
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Second, they thought it would be legislatively easier to write an Obamacare repeal bill than tax reform, because they intended to put off the hard work of creating an actual replacement for Obamacare until later.
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The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, which are jointly responsible for the standards, are now embarking on a legislatively mandated midterm evaluation of the greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards.
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In August, Barrasso introduced the Water Quality Certification Improvement Act of 2018, which aimed to amend the way the water quality certifications were granted legislatively and change provisions under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
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Although there will be a slowdown legislatively before the November midterm elections and a potential drop in revenues in the third and fourth quarters, administration officials, often steered by Trump's tweets, will keep lobbyists busy.
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"As a member of Congress, I find myself in a unique situation where I can take my love of music and try to make a difference legislatively for those who help create it," he said.
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"That's probably the most likely thing — when we write the funding of the government bill, we'll extend DACA legislatively, making it legal for a year or two and kind of punting it," Graham told reporters.
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"There are several changes that should be made legislatively to help legal authorities and third parties better protect intellectual property rights," the music groups said in their letters to the government, first spotted by Torrent Freak.
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It's even worse when you consider that Trump is now three-quarters of the way through his first 100 days, the period that new presidents view as their best chance to get major things done legislatively.
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The MMA goes back, legislatively, to at least 2013, when Chairman Goodlatte (R-VA) announced that, as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, he planned to conduct a "comprehensive" review of issues in US copyright law.
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Most immediately, the new tumult raging around Trump cannot make it any easier to pass tax reform -- the President's last chance to record a significant political victory in an otherwise legislatively barren first year in power.
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Díaz-Balart touted the fact that the bill if ratified by the Senate and passed by President Trump would add Venezuelan nationals to the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program legislatively, rather than through an administrative process.
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Too many Democrats, particularly the congressional leadership, have been weirdly passive in their reaction, grumbling that Sessions should put more effort and resources into other criminal prosecutions, while refusing to commit to fixing the problem legislatively.
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He acknowledged that they had discussed polling on the issue but said the discussion was limited to why Mr. Cuomo believed expansion had to be done legislatively, as in other states, rather than via executive order.
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But he remains dead set on accomplishing through the courts what he and his allies in Congress could not do legislatively: fully repeal the law, devastate American health care and leave millions of Americans at risk.
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The meeting with Trump was largely focused on resolving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which Trump has opted to end but says he wants preserved legislatively in exchange for border security and immigration reforms.
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Ironically, in spite of Republicans doing everything they can to kill ObamaCare (since they can't do it legislatively), it seems the healthcare exchanges are actually stabilizing and people are continuing to sign up for the program.
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Mr. Trump will almost surely achieve less legislatively in the second half of his term than he did in the first, when Republicans controlled both branches of Congress — and even then their record was not impressive.
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"What I mean by democratic socialism is creating a government that works for everybody, not controlled either legislatively or politically by a handful of very wealthy people," he said on CNN's "State of the Union" show.
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The bill was always a long shot legislatively, especially because of a controversy over a provision that would reduce the number of doctors required to sign off on a third-trimester abortion from three to one.
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Meanwhile, in the United States, the issue of trophy hunting abroad remains a controversial one legislatively as conservation and welfare groups are banding together to encourage the Trump administration to reject import permits for South African lions.
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Representative Adam Schiff, who serves as vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, suggests that Congress would be obligated to reappoint Mueller to his investigatory role legislatively if Trump extinguishes the special counsel one way or another.
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If passed by Congress, the law would require agencies to record other forms of legislatively authorized excused absences separately from administrative leave and create new categories of leave for extended excused absences due to personnel matters. Sen.
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Critics of a carbon tax argue that because of uncertainty over the correct value of the SCC, it should not be used at all for policy purposes — in effect, its value should be set to zero legislatively.
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The House will not convene next week, and the following week is already packed legislatively, the spokesperson said, meaning that even once the resolution gains enough support, it is unlikely to see a vote until early October.
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"It's misguided to legislatively declare a broad range of nonviolent campus criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism, especially at a time when the prime driver of anti-Semitism is the xenophobic, white nationalist far-right," he said.
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"I think they ought to make it very clear that they're not going to just sit back and tolerate this," he said, "that they're going to do whatever they can do legislatively to send a clear signal."
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And then legislatively, the story of the Trump era so far is failure on every front save tax cuts, an outsourcing of policymaking to Hill Republicans, and a general incompetence that is bringing us yet another government shutdown.
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While 33 states and the District of Columbia currently have some form of mail-in voting or absentee ballots, shifting to a completely vote-by-mail system for the general election could be impossible both logistically and legislatively.
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Tariffs, Trump and trade wars: Here's what it all means Flake, like many Republicans, has expressed deep concerns about Trump's plans to issue new tariffs on aluminum and steel and says he's ready to fight legislatively if needed.
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"I think it was a false start legislatively and I think if you're going to do it, slow down, do it right, and make sure the American people see the benefits of what you're doing," he told the audience.
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After announcing an end to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protected young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation, President Trump is now weighing policy that would implement those protections legislatively.
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Early Thursday morning it came out that it could even affect the half of all Americans who get their health insurance from their employer—this is, legislatively speaking, not what you want to have happen hours before a vote.
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It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before.... The president's tweet was an apparent reference to the ongoing Nuclear Posture Review, a legislatively mandated look at U.S. nuclear capabilities and strategy which Trump began on Jan.
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If I could make one suggestion that would save some money very quickly—and I'm not sure what would be required legislatively—it would be allowing dual-care Medicare-Medicaid enrollees to receive their benefits from the Medicaid side.
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When asked if he thinks the GOP conference would back a national emergency declaration, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise told reporters Thursday that Republicans would like to see the border wall issue resolved legislatively rather than through emergency powers.
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If he succeeds, the state would become the ninth state (not including Washington, D.C.) to legalize the drug and just the second state to do so legislatively, since it will be decided by the state's congress instead of voters.
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Minnesota was the first state to defeat a constitutional amendment to ban marriage [equality] after 34 states had enacted it, and then was the first state to legislatively enact same sex marriage, before the United States Supreme Court [ruled on it].
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"My message -- really, my plea -- and I've said this a number of times both before the camera as well as in hearings and virtually every single office call I have with members of Congress: Solve the problem legislatively," Kelly said.
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Washington (CNN)While defending President Donald Trump's decision to stop work on infrastructure legislation until House investigations into his administration stop, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday morning argued on CNN that House Democrats have not accomplished anything legislatively.
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" "Instead, it announces an across-the-board determination not to exercise discretion -- that is, a commitment not to undertake a case-specific analysis to determine whether any particular set of facts and circumstances calls for application of a legislatively authorized punishment.
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"The notion that a project of such enormous proportions in a legislatively protected water sanctuary could be rubber-stamped in this perfunctory way degrades all the environmental protections the public deserves, even if they call it a park," Mr. Emery said.
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Given the narrow advantage Republicans have in the Senate, the policy objectives spelled out in the Treasury report will not be quickly or fully enacted legislatively, but the report leaves no doubt as to what the administration seeks to achieve.
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Congress has now passed three major bills in response to the coronavirus, and it's unclear, legislatively, what their next steps are as lawmakers head out of town for several weeks for recess and the political will to do more tapers.
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"One of the things I thought would come from this hearing is a recommendation or a set of recommendations of what Congress might consider legislatively for additional sanctions," Senator Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas, said at the Banking Committee hearing.
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He has also won the attention of a group of frustrated donors such as Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who has given Senate Republicans millions of dollars over the years but is tired of seeing so little accomplished legislatively.
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When it came down to tangible policy accomplishments and experience, Biden consistently reminded voters that he was the one of the only ones on that stage who's actually accomplished things legislatively -- and who has the rapport and respect of world leaders.
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This would seem to suggest that most causes worthy of legitimacy can obtain it without the Constitution's being amended; if the logic of a federal balanced budget were so compelling, it would have met with a greater degree of success legislatively.
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Given the importance of installing judges to Mr. Trump's conservative allies, and questions about the administration's ability to otherwise deliver legislatively, it's doubtful that either the president or Senate Republicans will tolerate much interference from Democrats in his judicial agenda.
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I've long said that enshrining Section 230's grant of immunity to Big Tech in our trade agreements would be a mistake and I will continue to examine ways to hold Big Tech accountable – both legislatively and in our trade deals.
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Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, the Republican selected to become the committee's ranking member, said he was prepared to work with Mr. Nadler legislatively but would do all he could to shut down the committee if Democrats overzealously pursued the president.
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"We wish that members of Congress would spend as much time looking to fix the problem legislatively as they do bellyaching about what the President is doing trying to fix the problem," Short said when asked about Republican opposition to his tariffs.
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So you don't think there is something that can be done legislatively that could help prevent these — Well, I'd be willing to look at it, but for me, I'm not going to get away from the Second Amendment — the right to bear arms.
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"The lack of action at the federal level has just been building up pressure in so many states so even, you've got the ballot initiatives in four or five states, but also California and New York have accomplished it legislatively," Scheel said.
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At the end of the day, we were very open and transparent about our intention, which was to create a needed public debate in this country, which is in its infancy at a time where we're about to make very serious decisions legislatively.
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Capitol Hill should also avoid measures attempting to legislatively restrict Council participation or defund the UN. Doing so would merely weaken the U.S.' hand against those regimes that favor strengthening structural bias against Israel and dilute Council actions on rights-violating countries.
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The flip side is when the only thing we've ever done legislatively so far on cyber is a pretty weak-kneed information-sharing bill, and when it comes to critical infrastructure and certain other things, I'm just not sure that's going through.
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It is politically inexplicable and legislatively disgraceful that Cruz used a hearing called to investigate Russian attacks against America for the ulterior political motive of scoring cheap points on unrelated matters to help his reelection campaign, which polls show is in some trouble.
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"President Trump and his colleagues in Congress appear to have learned from their failed attempt to take away health insurance from tens of millions legislatively… that they need to do it in a back-door way, without the public catching on," says Vallas.
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Tokayev's challenge Kazakhstan's economic success under Tokayev's predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who now enjoys the legislatively defined title of First President, Leader of the Nation, head of the National Security Council, and Chairman of the Nur Otan ruling party, is not without challenges.
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Audience member: My question is, if there's a politician that starts getting rhetorically and legislatively very tough on tech, do you believe that the tech companies will kind of resort and hunker down like the hydrocarbon companies did in the '80s and '90s?
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The bill, which won the approval of the state's House of Representatives 79-66 and the state Senate 20-9, both of which are controlled by Democrats, would have made Vermont the first state to legalize recreational marijuana legislatively, instead of by popular referendum.
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HANNITY: It&aposs amazing because what they can&apost get done at the ballot box because the American people would never buy it, Dr. Gorka, and I think Dan Bongino is right, or what they could never get done legislatively without blowing up their careers.
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Laura Coates, legal analyst Given the Supreme Court's oft insurmountable deferential standard conferred to police officers in determining the appropriate level of force to use, will you ask Congress to legislatively change that deference and alter the way prosecutors investigate and assess police-involved shootings?
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Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat who promised as recently as Tuesday that his agenda for 2016 would include a "very aggressive ethics proposal," despite his previous assertions that little could be done legislatively to solve venal behavior by lawmakers determined to break the law.
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Some of the settlement money needs to go toward supporting doctors (legislatively and otherwise) with legacy patients who are benefiting from opioids—and some needs to go to humane, voluntary, and appropriate dose adjustment for those who aren't having positive effects from the drugs.
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"Even if we were to lose the House and be stymied legislatively, we could still approve appointments, which is a huge part of what we do," Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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As of 2015, Italy's most important political players are no longer its dozens of laconic provinces, but 14 "Metropolitan Cities," like Rome, Turin, Milan and Florence, each of which has been legislatively merged with its surrounding municipalities into larger and more economically viable subregions.
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"Republicans in office would mostly prefer to run away from this issue or hope it disappears before they have to deal with it legislatively," said Thomas P. Miller, a lawyer and health economist at the American Enterprise Institute and a critic of the law.
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Mr. King dropped out of Northwest Missouri State University to run a construction contracting business, and ran for the State Senate in 1996 when he first cottoned to the idea of an English-only America, something he would push for legislatively throughout his career.
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"I think we're going to look at both oversight and legislatively what we can do to better protect America and shut down terror pathways into the United States," McCaul said when asked whether he planned to take up any legislative fixes in his committee.
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And sadly, because of conservative courts, that have gone so conservative, including the two new nominees, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, that are even more conservative on antitrust than who we've got there, you've got to do something legislatively and through the agencies to change this.
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The Clinton America has heard about all week at the Democratic National Convention is single-minded in the pursuit of her goals — and doesn't appear to be as invested in whether the work gets done legislatively, through bipartisan negotiation, or through the executive branch.
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Day 1: Begin NAFTA reform On Day 1, Trump would begin reforming NAFTA, including ordering the Commerce Department and International Trade Commission to begin a study on what the ramifications of withdrawing from the treaty would be, and what would be required legislatively to do so.
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This is similar to what may be proposed legislatively in the U.S., but with one huge difference: The Swedish decision could be retroactive for a full decade, meaning massive sticker shock for private equity investors on take-home pay that might have already been spent years ago.
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And the only thing— JOHN HARWOOD: And this can be done either legislatively, through the implementing legislation, or some executive— KEVIN BRADY: You know, normally it's been through discussions and actions by other countries, saying, "This is how we intend to implement this"— JOHN HARWOOD: Interpret it.
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"I think whether it happens legislatively, which is the preferred way to do it in my view, or not, we have to continue to work to make sure that Venezuelans are not sent back to a situation where you have a murderous dictatorship," said Díaz-Balart.
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"If there was no easy mechanism set up to allow for a statewide investigation, you'd either have to set one up legislatively or get agreement at the local level — usually district attorneys — to engage in individual investigations that would collectively be amalgamated in one finding," he says.
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It would set a dangerous precedent, creating a world in which the government could simply force companies to create, design, and redesign their systems to allow law enforcement access to data, instead of requiring the government to use the measures, and meet the requirements, of legislatively enacted statutory schemes.
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It was a legislative strategy built when the Republican health care plan looked markedly different: They thought it would be legislatively easier to write an Obamacare repeal bill than tax reform, because they intended to put off the hard work of creating an actual replacement for Obamacare until later.
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That there should be tax breaks for students, that an internet legislatively protected as a 21st-century utility shouldn't be gouged by providers, that the separation of church and state should be inviolable were all assumed to be decent and reasonable evidence of modern American democracy and its institutions.
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He also lamented that he's leaving at a time when the Senate isn't doing as much legislatively as he wishes it was, in part because of arcane Senate rules and in part because, he said, leadership on both sides of the aisle has shielded members from difficult votes.
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Those Republicans who remain in Congress now have a stark choice in front of them: They can either try to swim against their own base and President Trump and likely fail, or press on and accomplish something legislatively before the die is cast on the 2018 elections and beyond.
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Though the government has established fair election laws in the past—to combat influence peddling and fraud, for instance—the dizzying pace at which campaign technology is evolving makes it especially difficult for lawmakers to grapple with intellectually and legislatively, and for the public to understand the stakes.
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To get anything done legislatively, Trump will have to work with the new Democratic Speaker — likely Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhy President Trump needs to speak out on Hong Kong Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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What the proposals would do: Curb their state Supreme Courts' power Change how judges are selected Restrain them legislatively In Pennsylvania: The impeachment resolutions filed on Tuesday came a day after the U.S. Supreme Court and a three-judge panel denied Republicans' requests to block the new congressional map.
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While Treasury can clear up uncertainty about some of the murky provisions, actual errors and unintended language can be solved only legislatively — at a time when Democrats seem disinclined to lend votes to shoring up a law they had no hand in passing and are actively trying to dismantle.
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"It was the residents who had seen the effective work the Corps had done at these nearby sites and therefore asked the Senators that they consider legislatively transferring the power over the site from the EPA Superfund program to the Corps," his office tells Broadly in an email.
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There is much that needs to be done legislatively, including extending or removing the statute of limitations on criminal and civil charges related to sexual assault, and strengthening mandatory reporting laws and ensuring truth in sentencing, so that dangerous offenders are not released early to damage more children.
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Mr. Schumer is already warning that any attempt by Republicans to unilaterally change confirmation debate rules would doom promising new bipartisan talks aimed at restoring the Senate's ability to consider appropriations bills — talks that leaders in both parties consider crucial to getting the Senate back on track legislatively.
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"This is something that needs to be fixed legislatively and we have confidence that they're going to do that," Sanders said, adding that Trump was willing to work with lawmakers on immigration reform, which she said should include several "big fixes," not just one tweak to the system.
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And in fact she was a very effective junior senator, a classic case of a "workhorse" member of Congress who sweats the details and does the dull work of legislative coalition building, rather than the kind of "showhorse" who gives some great speeches but doesn't make a big difference legislatively.
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What is happening is, the administration has been stealthily, because they couldn&apost get done legislatively, undermined the ACA, which is driving up premiums, which is putting protection of preexisting conditions at risk, putting an age tax at risk, putting women&aposs health costs at greater than male health costs.
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Twitter and Facebook in their current forms have only known a country where Obama is president and, even as he was stymied legislatively by Republicans and renounced by some on the left over his national security policy (see: drones), the voice coming from the bully pulpit preached pluralism and progress.
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The clash between Republicans and Democrats determined to aggressively follow up on Mr. Mueller's report — including by hearing testimony from the special counsel and former White House officials such as the counsel Donald F. McGahn II — has exacerbated the already tense atmosphere on Capitol Hill, where little is getting accomplished legislatively.
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When President Barack Obama used executive authority to provide subsidies for health care that House Republicans said the Affordable Care Act did not authorize, they did not retaliate legislatively, as Madison's Federalist 51 — the paper that based the separation of powers on each branch's propensity to defend its own turf — would have predicted.
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The spirit of the activist Resistance is certainly visible in Congress, but legislatively the party's leaders have mostly battled Trump the way they would have battled any Republican, and around the country the party's successful nominees have focused as much on unpopular aspects of the Republican agenda as on Trump's various grotesqueries.
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And fair enough -- but then one has to wonder why states can also require that abortion providers read legislatively mandated scripts to women that often contain abject lies (like that abortion causes breast cancer and suicide, even though there's no evidence it does), and war with doctors' professional judgment and the ethics of their profession.
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Greer has also been instrumental legislatively—Fight for the Future has been heavily involved in a Congressional push to restore net neutrality, first through an obscure legislative process known as the Congressional Review Act that would have repealed the FCC's move to end net neutrality and more recently through legislation that would protect net neutrality.
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"One of the reasons we don't see home cultivation in more recent medical marijuana programs is because they have been enacted legislatively rather by voter initiative, and lawmakers are generally reluctant about or hostile to the idea of home cultivation," said Paul Armentano, deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
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The supposedly passion-cooling US Senate — intended by the founders to protect the interests of small states such as Delaware and Rhode Island and to act as the "adults in the room" legislatively — has instead become a factional redoubt controlled by 53 senators elected by only 43.6% of the votes cast in Senate elections.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) spent much of Friday morning's meeting outlining the broad logistics for the legislatively difficult move to repeal the law, which would require close coordination with the Senate.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) said last week that there is "not much" Congress could do legislatively if Trump presses forward with the tariffs.
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Read More: Canada's Police Want Laws That Will Give Them 'Real Time' Access to Your Data "Successive federal governments have sought to legislatively enshrine a state power to access subscriber identification data from telecommunications companies," Citizen Lab researcher Christopher Parsons and Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic staff lawyer Tamir Israel write in their report.
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" The outrage meter peaked last week after a consultant linked to the utilities was recorded at an energy conference in Nashville saying that Amendment 1 was an "incredibly savvy" feat of "political jiu-jitsu" that will, if passed, "completely negate anything they [pro-solar interests] would try to do either legislatively or constitutionally down the road.
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An executive order could not fully eliminate the individual mandate like Congress could, and dealing with it legislatively actually saves the federal government money in a way that can be used for tax reform — about $400 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, because fewer people would be covered by the law's financial assistance and Medicaid expansion.
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The crux of the matter, then, is that after two rebukes from the Supreme Court and at least 22019 years of trying to legislatively overturn these legal setbacks through bills that would have significantly broadened the Clean Water Act's reach, EPA simply decided to ignore the long and widely recognized limitations under the current law and unilaterally move forward with an extralegal regulation.
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Pelosi's baseline The core of the Democratic strategy, underscored in Pelosi's remarks to the U.S. Conference of Mayors Wednesday, is that they cannot move off the baseline that the government must be reopened before negotiations can begin: "There is serious and justified concern that this president will shut down the government every time he doesn't get his way legislatively," she said.
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The question for Democrats is whether the White House is bluffing on its border wall demands so that the administration can later tell Republican voters that they pushed as hard as they could to get the money, particularly with so little to show legislatively for Mr. Trump's first 100 days besides the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice, Neil M. Gorsuch.
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Critics argued his decision to shutter parliament for an unusually long period of time was actually a ploy to block lawmakers who might seek to legislatively tie Johnson's hands as he pursues negotiations with the EU. He hopes to use the possibility of an economically damaging departure from the world's largest trading bloc to strengthen his hand in talks with his European counterparts.
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The importance of honoring our veterans, although legislatively diminished in spirit by enactment of the Uniform Holiday Bill in 1968, ought not to distract us from the eternal requirement to keep November 11 as our day of recollection and gratitude for those who selflessly served our great nation -- some of whom are not free of the physical, mental or psychological wounds that constrain them.
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RELATED: Senate Republicans weigh trade fight with Trump as other options on tariffs fall flat While many Republicans -- including GOP leaders -- have released blistering statements and worked behind the scenes to encourage Trump to change his mind on enacting steel and aluminum tariffs on US allies in the European Union, Canada and Mexico, Republicans leaders have shown very little appetite to actually defy Trump legislatively in recent days.
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Ed MarkeyEdward (Ed) John MarkeyJoseph Kennedy mulling primary challenge to Markey in Massachusetts Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs To cash in on innovation, remove market barriers for advanced energy technologies MORE (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution last week that would lay the groundwork for implementing the Green New Deal legislatively.
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"I think they ought to make it very clear that they're not going to just sit back and tolerate this, that they're going to do whatever they can do legislatively to send a clear signal — the same way they ought to be doing these things on the issue of DACA, those are the 'Dreamers' that are here," Kasich told CBS, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields certain immigrants who came to the country illegally as children from deportation.
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On the day House managers transmitted two articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan public auditor, reported that President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE violated the Impoundment Control Act by unilaterally withholding $214 million of legislatively appropriated Defense Department aid for Ukraine without obtaining authorization from Congress.
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