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The two-thirds majority required to pass legislation means that many bills die after extensive debate.
Brenner mapped “hot spots” around Camden, and sought to find out why people in some areas ran up such huge bills.
The parliament currently is considering 15 bills along these lines, all of which have the full support of the main opposition parties.
During the 1950’s and 1960’s, Europeans amassed a huge stash of US Treasury bills in an effort to maintain fixed exchange-rate pegs, much as China has done today.
But if governments are going to pay the economy’s hospital bills, they must act to make it less likely that hospitalization will be needed.
It will not be long before old habits – under-invoicing, fake purchase orders and bills, reporting of non-existent transactions, and blatant bribery – generates a new store of black money.
With entire sessions lost to opposition disruptions, and with frequent adjournments depriving legislators of time for deliberation, the MPs elected in May 2009 passed fewer bills and spent fewer hours in debate than any of their predecessors.
Bills languish, policies fail to acquire the legal framework needed for implementation, and governance slows.
Making matters worse, when China needs to use its savings – accumulated over two generations and packed into US Treasury bills – to alleviate fiscal constraints, it will find that the value of its foreign-exchange reserves has already evaporated.
Signaling its opposition, the California legislature recently introduced for consideration new bills to finance legal services for immigrants fighting deportation and to ban the use of state and local resources for immigration enforcement on constitutional grounds.
Russians no longer care about slogans and symbols because paying bills and feeding their families doesn’t leave time for indoctrination and ideology.
But American women voters know quite well what their own struggles are: paying the bills, educating their kids, dealing with a degenerated, costly health-care system, and so on.
Grillo holds no official position in M5S, which bills itself as a “non-association,” and yet he owns the blog that has been key to the movement’s success, as well as the copyright to its official symbol.
At an end-of-year celebration with parliamentarians of my own coalition, I toasted our success at getting many high-quality bills passed with opposition support.
To keep our coalition united, we need bills that allow us to pick a fight with the opposition.”
More precisely, Trump’s policies serve the corporate interests that pay the campaign bills and effectively run the US government.
National savings amounted to roughly 50% of GDP in 2005, which apparently means that households are so afraid of hospital bills, school fees, and the down-payment on the new apartment they dream of that they save every penny they earn.
The issue is bound to arise again, with several pending bills proposing revisions of the FISA court.
This would be a ruinous fiscal policy, yet perhaps a popular one in the short term – before the economic bills start coming due.
Gone are the days when one could count on a steady factory job to pay the bills indefinitely.
The big bills incurred by expensive diagnostics and hospital stays are covered in large part or altogether.
The not-so-poor population exists in a medical no-man's land, ineligible for public assistance but lacking the money to pay big bills.
Food-price inflation since 2008-2009 has been consistently above 10%, (except for 2010-2011, when it was “only” 6.2%); the poor, whose grocery bills typically account for 31% of the household budget, have suffered the most.
Harnessing this technology to expand financial inclusion would be economically empowering, particularly for smallholder farmers and merchants in rural communities, who could use their mobile phones to access market-price data, transfer cash, make retail purchases, deposit income, and pay bills – all while tending their fields or shops.
For example, families might be forced to sell off cattle and other valuables to pay exorbitant medical bills.
On a recent trip to Africa, I heard a harrowing story of a hospital where women and their newborns are routinely held hostage – often for months – until families can find the money to settle their bills.
Congressional bills aimed at benefiting powerful constituencies are generally given appealing (and misleading) names.
First, there are limits to how many trillions of dollars China can, and should, put into US Treasury bills.
Ryan’s committee plays an important role in setting America’s fiscal agenda, reflecting both the constitutional requirement that revenue bills originate in the House of Representatives and political realities (the House is traditionally less fractious than the Senate).
So what other bills do they plan not to pay as part of a showdown over legislation to keep the government funded?
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