The band was known to fight discrimination by demanding that a black act appear on the bill at each of their concerts.
On December 13, the Senate declined to act on a bill to renew the TAG accounts.
FORBES: We Don't Need TAG Accounts, We Need Sanity At The Fed
In fact, just this morning, a story showed that small businesses have put hiring and expanding on hold while waiting for the Senate to act on this bill.
They have tended to characterize the Act as an assault on the basic freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights and have sought far-reaching changes in the tools it provides law enforcement to detect and prevent terrorist plots inside the United States.
Small businesses are waiting for the Senate to act on a bill that would cut their taxes and provide them greater loans and investment opportunities with which to expand.
It's still too early to know if the new Mexican Congress will quickly act on Calderon's bill or tackle other more pressing matters like security and the economy.
CNN: After nearly 200 years, Mexico may make the name official
Striking the same theme, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill dubbed the Stop the War on Coal Act to roll back environmental laws that affect the fossil-fuel industry, although the Senate will almost certainly block it.
MSN: 'War on coal'? Why Obama might not be industry's worst enemy
The industry is also keen on supporting a bipartisan bill, dubbed the Growth Act, that would defer mutual fund taxes.
Mr. Boehner again reminded reporters that the House last year twice passed legislation to replace the cuts and called for the Senate to act on its own bill.
As small companies and tech giants alike join the coalition against the act, attention turns to the lawmakers on capitol hill, who begin debating the bill on Jan. 23.
FORBES: Petition: Electronic Arts Under Pressure to Denounce SOPA
These days, he and others from the SOPA fight are setting their sights on another bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
Instead, the Senate is going to vote soon on a bill that reauthorizes the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), which is set to expire later this year.
FORBES: PDUFA: One of Congress' most important health policy votes in 2012
After a talk on the telephone with Bill Clinton, Japan and the United States said they would act together to stop the collapse of the yen.
Dominic Bradley of the SDLP welcomed the "sound socialist principle" behind the bill, and commented on Mr Wilson's "Live at the Apollo" act.
New restrictions on the powers of the Lords were introduced in the 1949 Parliament Act which reduced the time peers could delay a bill from two years over three parliamentary sessions to one year over two parliamentary sessions.
On the issue of budget cuts, these are the product of a bipartisan bill, the Budget Control Act that was passed, as you know, in August.
On March 27th Congress sent a bill titled the JOBS Act to President Barack Obama for signing.
With the utmost simplicity, if the Wyden-Coats Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2011 gains momentum, the bill will eliminate the tax exempt interest on all new municipal bonds issued after 2011.
FORBES: A Trial Balloon That Could Deflate The Muni Market Even Further
Given the first two bills are pretty chewy, I doubt there will be much time left for Mark Hendrick's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill, still less for Barbara Keeley's Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill or Douglas Carswell's European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill, or the considerable number of other bills on the order paper.
Lawmakers are to vote on a bill that seeks to amend the country's 1955 marriage act.
And Conservative Cheryl Gillan's Private Members' Bill became the Autism Act 2009, which puts a legal duty on councils and NHS services to look after people with autism.
The second bill, this one on citizenship, attempts a similar balancing act.
The bill, called the Patient Protection Act of 2005, would have no effect on the approval process for drugs.
In 2006, Ms. Powell Jobs backed an effort led by College Track students to collect signatures backing passage of the Dream Act, a federal bill to put an estimated two million young people on a path to citizenship.
WSJ: Laurene Powell Jobs, Widow of Steve Jobs, Goes Public to Promote Dream Act
On Oct. 30, the Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill called the CPSC Reform Act, introduced by Sen.
On June 14, this group filed Delaware House Bill 392, The Delaware Health Security Act, which would require the State to assume control of all health care spending in Delaware.
FORBES: Coming Soon From Obamacare: A Single-Payer Nightmare For Delaware
The bill, called the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, faces its first hurdle later on Monday when the House votes on it, says the BBC's Justin Webb in Washington.
Congress needs to act immediately to send a bill to the president that funds our troops while leaving military strategy to our commanders on the ground.
She has testified twice as a Congressional expert witness on Crowdfunding and played an active role in the shaping and passage of the Crowdfunding Bill of the JOBS Act.
应用推荐