“ If Ireland is to have domestic legislation for Irish affairs they cannot come here for English or Scottish affairs ”.

In April 2009, Blackburn questioned former Vice President Al Gore during an energy-related congressional hearing: " The legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from ?”.

On April 24, 2009, during a congressional hearing, Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn asked Gore if he was a member of KPCB, and then inquired: " The legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from ?” She cited constituent concerns about Gore's role with KPCB as the reason for her inquiry.

By settling here, outside the bounds of the City of London, they hoped to avoid the restrictive legislation of the City Guilds.

For many years, Citroën had been running into issues where U. S. design legislation fixed older technologies in place, and prohibited certain engineering innovations " not invented here ", including items in many automobile designs today, like mineral oil brake fluid, aerodynamic headlights, and directional headlights.

So the legislation read here that whereas,

Heads of state with some discretionary powers, such as the power to veto legislation, should not be included here.

Reed told the Senate that earlier legislation " disregards entirely those of us who are interested in keeping American stock up to the highest standard – that is, the people who were born here ".

Its subsequent expansion, the mode of its administration, legislation for its government, its relation to constitutional questions, the diplomacy and politics involved in its acquisition, its international boundary questions, the enactment of settlement laws, the attraction of immigrants and growth of population, internal improvements and increased facilities of transportation, the discovery of precious metals, and other similar topics of interest might be cited here in connection with the public domain.

At that time all legislation could be negated by the Conservative Party-dominated House of Lords, and here it failed on a vote of 41 in favour and 419 against.

Rabbinism was not a dead letter here, but a guiding religio-judicial system ; for the rabbis adjudged civil as well as certain criminal cases on the basis of Talmudic legislation.

Cuban legislation from 2000 onwards is available here in Spanish.

However, here, she claimed, the benefit of " funding for all medically required treatment " is not guaranteed by law, as it is neither promised in the Canada Health Act nor any provincial health legislation.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

There are a number of other considerations besides this one but it is for the Congress, not the Department of Justice, to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation.

It is because each side has sought to implement its distinctive theological belief through legislation and thus indirectly force its belief, or at least the practical consequences thereof, upon others.

For all concerned with social-welfare legislation, the significance of this radical and revolutionary change in the thought and habits of the vast majority of the American people is clear, profound and far-reaching.

Although he pointed out that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, he added that the vital interest in election results transcended county lines.

He said legislation for a $60 million bond issue to underwrite the program is expected to be introduced Monday.

At the very moment that every attempt is being made to take management out from under the irrationality of anti-trust legislation, a drive is on to abolish collective bargaining under the guise of extending the anti-monopoly laws to unions who want no more than to continue to set wages in the same way that ship operators set freight rates.

The Community acquis or acquis communautaire (; ), sometimes called the EU acquis, and often shortened to acquis, is the accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the body of European Union law.

* 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $ 5, 000 USD to purchase " such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ".

In the United States there is a proportionally limited tax on alcopops relative to those sold in Europe, although some states are considering legislation to bring their tax levels closer to the European model, which is credited with limiting consumption by youth.

According to the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.

Although most legislation is initiated by the executive branch, the Bundestag considers the legislative function its most important responsibility, concentrating much of its energy on assessing and amending the government's legislative program.

Plenary sessions provide a forum for members to engage in public debate on legislative issues before them, but they tend to be well attended only when significant legislation is being considered.

The objective is to ensure the stability and efficiency of the system and compliance to rules and regulations ; the bank pursues it through secondary legislation, controls and cooperation with governmental authorities.

If there be any party which is more pledged than another to resist a policy of restrictive legislation, having for its object social coercion, that party is the Liberal party.

Another factor influencing the biotechnology sector's success is improved intellectual property rights legislation — and enforcement — worldwide, as well as strengthened demand for medical and pharmaceutical products to cope with an ageing, and ailing, U. S. population.

The Bankruptcy Act 1966 ( Commonwealth ) is the legislation that governs bankruptcy in Australia.

Directive 2011 / 65 / EU, better known as RoHS 2 is a recast of legislation originally introduced in 2002.

For example, a reception statute enacted by legislation in the state of Washington requires that " he common law, so far as it is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, or of the state of Washington nor incompatible with the institutions and condition of society in this state, shall be the rule of decision in all the courts of this state.

The British Statute of Anne ( 1710 ) further alluded to individual rights of the artist, beginning: " Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing ... Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors ... to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families :" A right to benefit financially from the work is articulated, and court rulings and legislation have recognized a right to control the work, such as ensuring that the integrity of it is preserved.

It was thought that if the Conservatives were able to secure this piece of legislation, then the newly enfranchised electorate may return their gratitude to the Tories in the form of a Conservative vote at the next general election.

The success of the Attlee Government's welfare legislation in reducing poverty was such that, in the general election of 1950, according to Kevin Jefferys, " Labour propaganda could make much of the claim that social security had eradicated the most abject destitution of the 1930s ".

Party leader John Gormley called publicly in November 2010 for a general election in the state to be fixed by the latter half of January 2011, allowing time for the Oireachtas to pass legislation for European Union and International Monetary Fund financial support for Ireland ; the date of the election was eventually set for March 2011.

The standard treaties and conventions leave the issue of implementation to each state, i. e. there is no general rule in international law that treaties have direct effect in municipal law, but some states, by virtue of their membership of supranational bodies, allow the direct incorporation of rights or enact legislation to honor their international commitments.

Social Unionism encompasses many unions that use their organisational strength to advocate for social policies and legislation favourable to their members or to workers in general.

* In Canada, municipalities are local governments established through provincial and territorial legislation, usually within general municipal statutes.

Of course this theorem is considered irrelevant by economists who do not believe that general equilibrium theory correctly predicts the functioning of market economies ; but it is given great importance by neoclassical economists and it is the theoretical reason given by them for combating monopolies and for antitrust legislation.

Generally, however, the Prime Minister is held responsible by the nation for the consequences of legislation or of general government policy.

Perhaps the most important of the Rules of Evidence is that, in general, hearsay testimony is inadmissible ( although there are many exceptions to this rule ). the United Kingdom the Civil Evidence Act 1995 sec 1 specifically allows for admission of ' hearsay ' evidence, legislation also allows for ' hearsay ' evedence to be used in criminal proceedings.

Besides general legislation, the Grand and General Council approves the budget and elects the Captains Regent, the State Congress, the Council of Twelve, the Advising Commissions, and the Government Unions.

In 1756, the colony of Massachusetts enacted legislation that barred the use of general warrants.

By the end of the 1820s, along with a general economic recovery, many of these repressive laws were repealed and in 1828 new legislation guaranteed the civil rights of religious dissenters.

The Oliy Majlis enacts legislation, which may be initiated by the president, within the parliament, by the high courts, by the procurator general ( highest law enforcement official in the country ), or by the government of the Autonomous Province of Karakalpakstan.

* July 25 – The U. S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army ( now called " 5-star general "); Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.

Despite her personal views, Alexandra supported her son's reluctant agreement to Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's request to create sufficient Liberal peers after a general election if the Lords continued to block the legislation.

The more general language has allowed more properties and parklands to enjoy status as protected areas by this legislation, a policy developed early in its history.

As the national police force of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is primarily responsible for enforcing federal laws throughout Canada, while general law and order including the enforcement of the Criminal Code and applicable provincial legislation is constitutionally the responsibility of the provinces and territories.

On March 18, 2011, the Industrial Workers of the World website ( www. iww. org ) supported an endorsement of a general strike as a followup to protests against Governor Scott Walker's proposed labor legislation in Wisconsin, following a motion passed by the South Central Federation of Labor ( SCFL ) of Wisconsin endorsing a statewide general strike as a response to those legislative proposals.

Lacking the two-thirds majority necessary in both houses of the Legislature to submit constitutional amendments to the electorate, in 2004 the Popular Democratic Party's then-majority approved legislation to hold a referendum, not on a particular constitutional amendment as such, but on the general concept of switching from a bicameral to a unicameral system which was held on July 10, 2005.

The choice of a £ 200 threshold as the criterion for general dissolution under the legislation has been queried, as this does not appear to correspond to any clear distinction in the quality of religious life reported in the visitation reports, and the preamble to the legislation refers to numbers rather than income.

The covenant is not enforceable in Australia, however, AHRC legislation allows the Australian Human Rights Commission ( AHRC ) to examine enacted legislation ( to suggest remedial enactments ), its administration ( to suggest avoidance of practices ) and general compliance with the covenant which is schedule to the AHRC legislation.