The phrase appeared in federal legislation for the first time this year in the Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights introduced in the Senate by John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.).

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The Pirate Party UK - which campaigns for the legalisation of non-commercial file sharing - said the passage of the bill marked "a sombre day for Britain's digital future".

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Corker, a member of the Banking Committee who had been negotiating with Dodd on behalf of the Republicans, said in a statement Thursday, The current bill would remove swap desks from commercial banks, lowering the amount of capital available for actual lending.

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Though the bill doesn't address the hot-button subject of commercial logging in public forests, it goes a long way toward bringing good-sense management to our national forests.

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By the same token, a route that links Disney World, a convention centre, two airports and two of Florida's biggest cities sounds like a reasonable commercial proposition, especially when the federal government is paying most of the bill.

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More recently, the Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010 came from a Private Members' Bill from Labour MP Julie Morgan and now bans the use of commercial tanning equipment by under-18s.

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Leading the charge against the bill is Wendell Young IV, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 and chairman of UFCW of the PA Wine and Spirits Council.

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If the bill goes ahead in its current form, investors in a variety of industries might fear that their commercial rights are not safe.

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That law - from the 1930s in the aftermath of the Great Depression - separated commercial and investment banking and was eventually abolished in 1999 under President Bill Clinton.

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