Questions tagged [legislation]
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What is the purpose of proposing clearly unconstitutional laws?
The 119th Congress is currently considering two high-profile bills regarding dual citizenship:
The Disqualifying Dual Loyalty Act (H.R. 5817): Introduced by Rep. Randy Fine, this bill seeks to ...
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Why don't the House and Senate work together to draft laws?
The normal process of passing laws in the US Congress is that a bill is introduced in one of the houses (only the House of Representatives for revenue-related bills). It goes through debate and ...
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What options (short of abdication) might a Queen or King of England have to avoid giving royal assent, formally turning a bill into law?
The BBC's April 23, 2024 Rwanda: Why a migrant plane won’t be taking off anytime soon contains the following:
While the bill has now passed through Parliament, the quickest a flight can take off is - ...
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What happens if a bill passes the House with a provision that sunsets before the Senate hears it?
The House passed HR 7024 today (Jan. 31st) which has a provision that expires a tax credit today - on the 31st. Since the Senate has not received the Bill, what happens to the date that has now passed?...
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What are the main arguments for slavery? [closed]
We undoubtedly must have read and heard passionate arguments justifying the abolition of slavery, be it from the clergy, and philosophical and political clerisy; however, what has been absent from the ...
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How does the MARITIME Act differ from or improve on the IMSC?
A UAE think tank had an article on Sep 5 saying:
the US Congress is also increasingly on board with the integrated deterrence doctrine. As part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), ...
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What could have been the intended purpose of Section 23 of the Theft Act 1968?
Section 23 of the Theft Act 1968 states:
Advertising rewards for return of goods stolen or lost.
Where any public advertisement of a reward for the return of any goods which have been stolen or lost ...
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Why is the $14 billion aid bill to Israel "bad for Israel", according to the White House?
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U.S. senators from both parties voiced doubts on Tuesday about House Republicans' plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting Internal Revenue Service funding, without ...
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Reports in the European Parliament
What are so-called "reports" in the European Parliament?
If reports have no legislative effect, are they just mere declaration of intention of the parliament?
What kind of majority is needed ...
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Is it possible to expand voting right by ordinary legislation provided that there is no explicit constitutional restriction?
I have noticed that while many constitutions guarantee voting rights for its citizens, these provisions are often phrased in a way that does not preclude expanding such right to people beyond the ...
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Is Day light time ending in USA
There was couple of news regarding US Senate agreeing on Day light Savings time ending. But I do see it is getting continued. Will it end in 2022or 2023 ?
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How many times, and for how long has Orban had his legislation give him power to rule by decree since 2010?
I am looking for an answer with reliable sources to the specific dates between which such matters occurred.
I'm sure the best source would be digging up the Hungarian quasi-legislations minutes, but I ...
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Why is the Inflation Reduction Act called the Inflation Reduction Act?
The US Senate has recently passed the Inflation Reduction Act. Admittedly, I did not read all 755 pages of the bill, but the media claims that it is one of the biggest investments on climate change ...
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What would be the driving political force behind pushes to ban no fault evictions?
Landlords are professionally organized into trade bodies like the NRLA, and quite well at that.
Tenants are more rag tag and grassroots although tenant rights groups like shelter are also reasonably ...
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Why can Canada’s parliament vote (on gun laws), but even when a single party controls both the U.S. House and Senate a change is all but impossible?
An article today discusses the difference between the U.S. and Canadian political systems and claims to answer a simple question, but the main issue remains unanswered.
Why can Canada’s parliament ...
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