They opposed the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction ; ;

The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

The bill, which Daniel said he drafted personally, would force banks, insurance firms, pipeline companies and other corporations to report such property to the state treasurer.

An adverse vote of 81 to 65 kept in the State Affairs Committee a bill which would order the referendum on the April 4 ballot, when Texas votes on a U.S. senator.

Any adjustments which are made, Mr. Grenier said earlier this month, will appear on the balance of the tax bill since most of the town's taxpayers take the option of paying quarterly with the balance due next year.

The Senate ( by voice vote ) and the House ( by 224-170 ) passed and sent to the White House the compromise farm bill which the President is expected to sign, not too unhappily.

The bill called for former President George W. Bush to recognize and use the word genocide in his annual April 24 speech which he never used.

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

* 1841 – U. S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States.

The campaign included fierce debates ; Johnson's primary issue was the passage of the Homestead bill, which Haynes contended would facilitate abolition.

On November 21, 1867, the House Judiciary Committee produced a bill of impeachment: it had a broad collection of complaints against him, but as stated, these were not thought to be easily provable under the Constitution, which required evidence " as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.

On November 8, 2011, voters in more than 100 Georgia cities and counties voted on a bill which would allow stores to sell alcohol on Sundays.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education.

His bill was passed quickly by the House of Commons but was stalled by the Senate, which returned the bill to the Commons with the recommendation that the holiday be renamed The National Holiday of Canada, an amendment that effectively killed the bill.

It met with stronger resistance in the Senate — some Senators objected to the change of name ; Ernest Manning, who argued that the rationale for the change was based on a misperception of the name, and George McIlraith, who did not agree with the manner in which the bill had been passed and urged the government to proceed in a more " dignified way "— but finally passed.

When the radicals mustered enough support to defeat a bill which would have preserved the status quo in religion, the conservatives, together with many moderates, surrendered their authority back to Cromwell who sent soldiers to clear the rest of the Assembly.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

On 16 June, Dewar set out the legislative programme for the Executive which included: an Education bill to improve standards in Scottish schools ; land reform to give right of access to the countryside, a bill to abolish the feudal system of land tenure ; and a bill to establish National Parks in Scotland.

The resulting tariff rates in the Payne – Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 were too high for the progressives, based in part on Taft's campaign promises ; but instead of blaming the act's shortcomings on Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and big business, Taft claimed the responsibility, calling it the best bill to come from the Republican Party.

Critics also claimed the bill would have a chilling effect on the availability of medical information.

The bill arose because of an increase in lawsuits against fast food chains by people who claimed that eating their products made them obese, disassociating themselves from any of the blame.

In the few cases in which a bill was not signed, all presidents have claimed that the bill in question was manifestly unconstitutional.

He reached agreement with Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez ( D-TX ) to insert into the bill “ firewalls ” that banks claimed would prevent real competition between banks and securities firms.

For example, it was claimed that the phrase appeared in a 1790 court record from Sumner County, Tennessee, discovered in 1859 by a Tennessee historian named Albigence Waldo Putnam, in which Andrew Jackson apparently said " proved a bill of sale from Hugh McGary to Gasper Mansker, for an uncalled good, which was O. K .".

He also claimed £ 1, 262 for a gas bill that was £ 1, 055 in credit.

Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, lodged a protest and claimed that the act discriminated against British and other foreign vessels in contravention of the Treaty, and requested that the Senate forgo action on the bill in order that a detailed statement might be sent, but President Taft signed the Act on 24 August.

In the debate on the bill Prynne asserted the rights of Charles II of England and claimed that the writs should be issued in his name.

In 2009, the monarchy claimed to be costing each person an estimated 69 pence a year ( not including " a hefty security bill ").

In 2001, she claimed responsibility for getting funds included in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill for a pilot project supporting school-based, mental health services in her district.

* Privacy: Hoyer claimed to oppose providing immunity to telecom companies but has come under fire for negotiating a bill, described by Senators Patrick Leahy and Russ Feingold as a " capitulation ", that would provide immunity to any telecom company that had been told by the Bush administration that their actions were legal.

Peace's contends that the crisis was not, as pundits claimed at the time, a result of " his " energy bill.

The semester's exam period was lost and postponed for the fall, while the government shelved the changes and claimed that no bill would be put to a parliamentary vote before a more extensive dialogue has been held with students.

Following a review of MPs expenses by Sir Thomas Legg, Gillan was also found to have claimed £ 1, 884 more than her mortgage bill was actually worth.

Also in 2004 Purnell claimed £ 395 for an accountant's bill which included " tax advice provided in October 2004 regarding sale of flat ".

Supporters of the bill claimed that this veto showed Ehrlich, whose official biography describes him as " unapologetically pro-business ," had sided with " big corporate interests rather than Maryland's working families.

The Reform Act 1832 led to his departure from the Lords, and is considered to have greatly shortened his life ; he fought strongly for the city corporations, which he claimed the bill treated " with absolute contempt ", but was eventually defeated.

Among other things, Gallant claimed that the bill would limit freedom of opinion, make sections of the Bible " hate literature " and provide protection to pedophiles.

Curling claimed his protest was meant to highlight a lack of public consultation in the Harris government's bill.

The issue of third-party beneficiaries has appeared in cases where a stevedore has claimed it is covered under the exclusion clauses in a bill of lading.

The group claimed the bill ( HR 2640 & S 2084 ) would give authorities -- including courts, psychiatrists, and in some cases psychologists -- the ability to revoke the Second Amendment rights of veterans who had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Exxon claimed the OPA was effectively a bill of attainder, a regulation that was unfairly directed at Exxon alone.

Critics of the bill claimed that it would prohibit reciting various scripture condemning homosexuality, while supporters pointed out that the bill added an explicit defence against any charge of incitement of hatred for opinions expressed in good faith based on religious texts.