The bill stops short, however, of forcing audit firms to rotate their clients every few years, a requirement that is now being mooted in Britain.
Besides, the Senate bill fell short in some important ways.
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Moving the bill, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said while it was a short bill, it had generated more than 20 hours of assembly debate during its various stages.
But although he was a key figure in getting this year's health legislation passed, the final bill fell far short of his goals.
While the country needs and deserves government action to revive the economy, I am afraid the final bill fell far short of the goal.
In the Lords (from 3pm) there's more detailed consideration of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill and a short debate on combating neglected tropical diseases.
Bill Ackman is short Herbalife in a big way.
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Hacked Off's chairman, Hugh Tomlinson QC, has drafted a short bill for England and Wales designed to implement the report's findings in full, and is publishing it for consultation.
Only four Democrats voted for it, and the bill fell one vote short of passing.
Turns out this bill had a very short lifespan, having been introduced just a couple of weeks ago.
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Is the only objection that the President has to something that the Senate does to change the Boehner bill would be the short-term extension?
Mr Speaker, these measures will be included in a short selfstanding bill - on the conduct of members in the Commons - which will be introduced and be debated before the summer adjournment.
The Government's programme is a bit bogged down at the moment - and you would need the best part of a whole Commons day to ram through the second reading, committee, report and third reading of even a short emergency bill.
The wage bill went down in the short term but the pension costs went up in the long term.
Short-end bill prices fell sending implied yields higher by five basis points forcing the gradient of the curve higher as the steepening process grinds forward.
It said it was "unconvinced" by the arguments for introducing fixed term Parliaments, claiming the bill owed "more to short term considerations than to a mature assessment of enduring constitutional principles or sustained public demand".
According to a senior administration official, the president is still holding to his promise not to sign a short-term bill that extends Bush-era tax cuts across the board to buy time for a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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If it came down to it, would you approve of a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown?
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After White House and congressional leaders reached agreement on the fiscal 2011 budget, Congress approved another short-term spending bill to keep the government funded through Thursday at midnight.
According to news reports, Democrats and Republicans are unlikely to reach any sort of budget agreement before April 8, when a short-term spending bill for the current fiscal year expires.
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But after a short meeting with President Bill Clinton last month at the United Nations, he seems to have quietly decided to drop his opposition to a small American military outpost on Aruba, which services drug-surveillance planes.
Now, in addition to making sure that this plan doesn't add to the deficit in the short term, the bill I sign must also slow the growth of health care costs, while improving care, in the long run.
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Kudos to Bill Ackman for coming forward with his short position in Herbalife (HLF) shares.
Institutions are also nervous, as very short-term T-bill rates have spiked, therefore causing the yield curve to flatten out.
On the one side, Bill Ackman, who publicly revealed his short on December 20 at a special Ira Sohn conference.
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He put out a safe on Friday saying he intends to pass another short-term stopgaps spending bill by the end of this week.
Democrats waged a multimillion-dollar ad campaign and lobbied hard for the bill but still came up 13 votes short of the two-thirds needed to pass.
According to the report, as of May 22, the four banks issued only 340 billion yuan in new loans, with short-term loans and bill financing remaining the dominate type.
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