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Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.
Keith O'brien
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Cardinal
Government
Dignity
Human Life
Legislation
Pieces
Prime Minister
Sanctity
Support
Attacks
Bill
Gordon
Minister
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Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
Mike Fitzpatrick
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U.s. Representative
Design
Home
Teacher
Children
Legislation
Publish
Safety
Surfing
Trade
Unique
Website
Teachers
Begins
Commission
Dangers
Federal
Require
Resource
Serve
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
P. J. O'rourke
/
Satirist
Business
Certain
Complexity
Credit
Derivatives
Fraud
Left Wing
Legislation
Simple
Social
Also
Apply
Beyond
Certain Point
Rest
Funds
Hedge
Programs
Point
Rule
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As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro-life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing.
Mike Huckabee
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Former Governor Of Arkansas
Arkansas
Harsh
Legislation
Pro Life
Existing
Good Thing
Governor
None
Punitive
Sign
Virtually
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I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.
Robert Hurt
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U.s. Representative
Attorney
Health Care
Legislation
Provision
Attorney General
Efforts
Fully
Mandate
Repeal
Takeover
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True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.
Jim Cooper
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U.s. Representative
Bills
Blood
Contact
Legislation
Disgust
Draft
Enemies
Sport
Zero-Sum
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All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Mitt Romney
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Former Governor Of Massachusetts
Family
Love
Arms
Better Place
Children
Gentle
Heal
Legislation
Mother
Sleep
Love God Family
Laws
Child
Drift
Far
Fathers
Feeling
Hearts
Loving
Mothers
Wrapped
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Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
/
U.s. Representative
Adjustment
Cost
Dependent
Increase
Last Year
Legislation
Legislative Branch
Percent
Proud
Original
Branch
Each Year
Judges
Salaries
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I would say to Republicans that when you look at civil rights legislation that took place in the 1960s, it took a bipartisan effort to get those things done, and so what I would tell my colleagues, both Republicans and Democrats, is let's come together, and let's be for fairness.
Marc Veasey
/
United States Representative
Bipartisan
Civil Rights
Colleagues
Effort
Fairness
Legislation
Civil
Democrats
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
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I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate spend it. Have it be completely transparent. But actually getting to that spot, as we have learned through all the legislation over the decades, is very difficult.
Rick Santelli
/
Editor
Legislation
Levels
Thinking
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I am sick and tired of folks that are doing everything they can to try to get a bad bill going, and then they vote against it when the bad bill's got the momentum to go through. We should be doing everything, using every tool in our toolbox, to stop bad legislation from happening.
Matt Salmon
/
United States Representative
Legislation
Momentum
Sick
Tired
Vote
Bill
Happening
Sick And Tired
Tool
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It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.
Jerrold Nadler
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U.s. Representative
Conditions
Coverage
Critical
Genuine
Legislation
Reform
Dramatically
Option
Health Insurance
Include
Insurance
Pass
Restrictions
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
Ted Cruz
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United States Senator
Amnesty
Block
House Of Representatives
Legislation
Representatives
Senate
Obama
Democrats
Nothing Will Stop
Introduced
Led
Passed
Prohibit
Stood
Uniform
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What I have made very clear to my ministers is that I expect them to provide briefings on legislation and any issues pertaining to their electorate. Now I understand some ministerial staffers and offices have gone beyond that and I'll be speaking to my ministers that that will stop.
Annastacia Palaszczuk
/
Briefing
Clear
Electorate
Legislation
Beyond
Expect
Ministerial
Offices
Pertaining
Provide
Speaking
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What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.
Tom Hodgkinson
/
Writer
Attitude
Travel
Boss
Demand
Grows
Legislation
Mental Attitude
Refuse
Taste
Type
Unemployment
Bosses
Gradual
Towards
Idling
Mental
Nine-To-Five
Required
Shift
Worse
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The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families and businesses; increased transfer payments, like unemployment insurance; and increased direct government spending, like infrastructure investment.
Christina Romer
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Professor
Direct
Government Spending
Infrastructure
Investment
Legislation
Recovery
Spending
Stimulus
Tax Cuts
Unemployment
Tax
Businesses
Cuts
Insurance
Mixture
Payments
Transfer
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When I went up to Glasgow University in 1967, student life was dominated by 13-hour debates on Fridays, when one of the student political clubs would form the 'government' for the day and attempt to push through a piece of legislation, which the other clubs either supported or opposed.
Andrew Neil
/
Clubs
Glasgow
Legislation
Attempt
Debates
Dominated
For The Day
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While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.
Elliott Abrams
/
Lawyer
Block
Competitors
Contracts
Deny
Disapproval
Hostile
Legislation
Regimes
Resources
Tangled
Trade
Abroad
American Companies
German
Bid
Commodities
French
Designed
Japanese
Web
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After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
Claire Mccaskill
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United States Senator
Bent
Input
Legislation
Mortgage
Predatory
Efforts
Holding
Led
Protects
Seniors
Stood
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Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
Jeff Goodell
/
Author
Bully
Climate Change
Collapse
Funk
Inaction
Legislation
Movement
President Obama
Pulpit
Realization
Unlikely
Change Risks Climate
Obama
Cap
Catastrophic
Utter
Prepare
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For a country constantly threatened by missiles, rockets and mortar shells from terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, security is not only a gravely important issue, but is the most critical issue. That's why I introduced the Defend Israel Act as one of my first pieces of legislation.
Jacky Rosen
/
Critical
Groups
Hamas
Israel
Legislation
Missiles
Mortar
Rockets
Security
Shells
Terrorist
Threatened
Constantly
Defend
Gravely
Important Issue
Introduced
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America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.
Bill Johnson
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Author
Ability
America
Binding
Compensation
Court
Judiciary
Legislation
Military
Paid
Pay
Prison
Security
Social Security
Unemployment
Legally
Meet
Obligations
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I actually believe that one of the lessons of 1993 and 1994, as well as 2009 and 2010, is that when a Democratic president has the opportunity - with a Democratic Congress - that you shouldn't wait to push significant legislation, whether it's health care, immigration reform, other measures.
Julian Castro
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Former Mayor Of San Antonio
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Legislation
Significant
Measures
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Speaking nothing of how we often fall short in keeping our promises, we frequently play an unnecessary game of politics with key issues - using must-pass legislation such as disaster relief as a vehicle to sweeten unrelated, contentious bills that may not otherwise pass as stand-alone measures.
Mark Meadows
/
Bills
Disaster
Legislation
Relief
Unnecessary
Vehicle
Frequently
Measures
Promises
Unrelated
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Richard Shelby has a long history of sponsoring legislation that would only benefit his largest contributors, for trading earmarks of pork-barrel politics and personal favors in order to benefit himself, his campaign war chest, political action committee, and former members of his Senate staff.
Ron Crumpton
/
Action
Favors
Former
Legislation
Members
Senate
Staff
Trading
Benefit
Campaign
Chest
Committee
Himself
Largest
Long History
Personal
Sponsor
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Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn't sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. It was Obama's boldest piece of legislation and the one that will most likely define him.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Journalist
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Congress
Economic
Legislation
March
Presidency
Obama
Biggest
Boldest
Define
Likely
Passed
Perhaps
Piece
Shift
Sold
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Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.
John Hoeven
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United States Senator
Bipartisan
Despite
Legislation
Lobbying
Majority
President
Senate
Strong
Support
Actively
Obama
Voted
Although
Bill
Democrats
Won
Favor
Necessary
Passage
Receive
Votes
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A Global Magnitsky Bill, which broadens the scope of the US Magnitsky Act to human rights abusers around the world was passed in December 2016. Estonia adopted Magnitsky legislation in December 2016, and the UK followed in April 2017. These are great successes, but my fight for justice continues.
Bill Browder
/
Adopted
April
December
Estonia
Human Rights
Legislation
Scope
Followed
Successes
Uk
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One of the most interesting things that I'm seeing of the Trump picks is such a heavy business and financial focus. I can't help but feel like this is going to throw a lot of policy weight and details back to Congress, because these are not people who have a lot of experience drafting legislation.
Austan Goolsbee
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Economist
Drafting
Heavy
Interesting Things
Legislation
Picks
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The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
Ron Wyden
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United States Senator
Bills
Concerned
Groups
Legislation
Lobbyists
Senate
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Sneak
Special
Special Interest Groups
Allow
Creates
Included
Large
Provisions
Slope
Special Interest
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I think it is right that government should have passed legislation that requires that relationships and sex education is taught in schools, but at the same time, I also agree that it is right that parents should be able to choose the moment at which their children become exposed to that information.
Andrea Leadsom
/
Member Of Parliament
Education
Government
Able
Agree
Exposed
Information
Legislation
Sex
Sex Education
Taught
Also
Same
Choose
Parents
Moment
Passed
Relationships
Requires
Same Time
Schools
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
Ted Deutch
/
Jobs
Congress
Creating
Florida
Focus
Legislation
Private Sector
Pursue
Wind
Area
Foremost
Good Jobs
Policies
Private
Sector
Solar
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While I am talking about private sector job creation, the cap-and-trade energy tax, Speaker Pelosi's health-care bill and card-check legislation, Washington Democrats are defending groups like ACORN. They are on the wrong side of the issues and know their views are wrong for Arkansas, so they attack me.
Tim Griffin
/
Arkansas
Creation
Groups
Job Creation
Legislation
Private Sector
Views
Acorn
Attack
Defending
Democrats
Speaker
Sector
Wrong Side
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To tackle the prescription drug affordability crisis, we need to understand how high costs are directly impacting the people in our communities and in our neighborhoods - and we need to redouble our resolve to pass meaningful legislation that can lower prices and stimulate competition across the industry.
Abigail Spanberger
/
Legislation
Meaningful
Resolve
Directly
Prescription
Prices
Stimulate
Tackle
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I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.
Robert Harris
/
Novelist
Astonishing
Legislation
Millions
Tax
Change Politics Future
Cent
Embracing
Historians
Per
Union
Replacement
Trade Union
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With the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, we are taking bold action to level the playing field for American patients and taxpayers. This legislation is one that I am proud to have voted for, and the House can be proud to have passed. It is essential to save the lives of Americans and improve our quality of life.
Jeff Van Drew
/
Legislation
Quality Of Life
Bold
Patients
Playing Field
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
Gary Johnson
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Former Governor Of New Mexico
Bills
Items
Legislation
Mexico
New Mexico
Money Government Keep
Benefit
Governor
Passed
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If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.
Michael Pollan
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Author
Agriculture
Bills
Legislation
New York City
Okay
City People New
Committee
Represent
Farm
Fill
Piece
Special Interest
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You can look at what I did in the Senate. I did introduce legislation to rein in compensation. I looked at ways that the shareholders would have more control over what was going on in that arena. And specifically said to Wall Street, that what they were doing in the mortgage market was bringing our country down.
Hillary Clinton
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Arena
Compensation
Legislation
Mortgage
Senate
Shareholders
Wall
Bringing
Street
Introduce
Looked
Market
Rein
Specifically
Wall Street
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The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.
David Boies
/
Lawyer
Affirming
Bill Of Rights
Constitution
Court
Court Decision
Decision
Fundamental Rights
Including
Legislation
Majority
Past
Protect
Rights
Strikes
Supreme
Supreme Court
Voters
Decisions
Bill
Discriminatory
Marry
Fundamental
Minority
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Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat.
Joseph Stiglitz
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Economist
Appropriate
Behaviour
Bully
Incentives
Legislation
Outsourcing
Rule Of Law
Undesirable
Adopt
Discourage
Portray
Prevent
Refugees
Security Threat
Threaten
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It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of the Second World War, but if you look at all the social legislation of the '60s - abortion, homosexual law reform, equal pay - it wasn't done by my generation; it was done by people who were adults.
Linda Grant
/
Novelist
Abortion
Equal
Equal Pay
Homosexual
Legislation
My Generation
Obvious
Second World War
War Done World
War Look World
World War
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Unprecedented in modern British history and outside all normal civil service rules, a bunch of MPs, some of them working with foreign governments, wrote primary legislation - 'the Surrender Act' also known as the Benn Act - without any of the scrutiny of who influenced and who funded it that is normal for legislation.
Dominic Cummings
/
British
Bunch
Civil Service
Legislation
Normal
Scrutiny
Surrender
Unprecedented
Rules
Civil
Governments
Influenced
Outside
Primary
Service
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Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn't carry out an intelligent debate. He oversimplifies, he exaggerates, and he basically led the Republican Party over the cliff in the fall of 2013. He has shown no qualifications, no legislation being passed, doesn't provide leadership, and he has no real experience.
Peter T. King
/
Leadership
Cruz
Debate
Fall
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Legislation
Party
Qualifications
Republican Party
Basically
Carry
Cliff
Exaggerate
Led
Provide
Shown
Ted
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Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book.
Peter Singer
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Philosopher
Adopted
Canada
Enabling
European Countries
Legislation
New Zealand
Public Good
Good Government People
Copy
Creates
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
Recognises
Reduce
Sales
Zealand
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People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I think that, yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think if you're advocating for legislation, or if you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.
Jessica Valenti
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Writer
Advocating
Legislation
Women Me Yourself
Limit
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The real estate lobby has prominent allies in both parties. After the last major overhaul of the tax code, in 1986 - under a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, a Republican Senate and a Democratic House - it was a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who signed legislation that restored lost real estate tax breaks seven years later.
James B. Stewart
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Allies
Clinton
Code
Democrat
Democratic
House
Legislation
Lost
President
Prominent
Senate
Seven
Tax Breaks
Tax
Bill
Bill Clinton
Both Parties
Breaks
Estate
Estate Tax
Major
Last
Lobby
Parties
Real Estate
Restored
Signed
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Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans, and break down bureaucratic barriers preventing them from finding work. It's smart legislation that members of both parties support, and I'm pleased the Senate passed it.
Joe Heck
/
U.s. Representative
Assistance
Barriers
House Of Representatives
Legislation
Members
Preventing
Representatives
Senate
Smart
Unemployed
Month
Both Parties
Bureaucratic
Finding
Parties
Passed
Pleased
Provide
Veterans
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As governor, I would gladly sign legislation to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. Other states have led on these issues, and I firmly believe that Ohio must provide an inclusive, welcoming, and tolerant environment that is free of harassment and discrimination for everyone.
Richard Cordray
/
Discrimination
Environment
Gender
Harassment
Legislation
Ohio
Orientation
Based
Inclusive
Firmly
Gladly
Governor
Sexual
Led
Prohibit
Provide
Sign
Tolerant
Welcoming
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I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.
Carl Levin
/
United States Senator
Legislation
Path
Pursue
Supportive
Bill
Collins
Discriminatory
Effective
Indeed
Proposed
Repeal
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