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And I remember walking through the halls of the U.S. Capitol, and I was in my 30s, and my life had purpose, and I couldn't imagine that anybody would ever challenge this important piece of legislation.
Do you know what he called this important piece of legislation?
And its first line of defense has to be our own standards, not those enforced on us by a censor or legislation, our own standards and our own integrity.
They were working on some legislation that had to do with crime and punishment and capital punishment in the state of Arizona.
MK: Yeah, you know, legislation is often at a colossally slow pace, but my wife, and I have to admit, a lot of other members of Congress that I know, work incredibly hard.
MK: That's our political action committee, where we are trying to get members of Congress to take a more serious look at gun violence in this country, and to try to pass some reasonable legislation.
And in fact, in the late 1980s, the early 1990s, legislation was passed that actually provided individuals with autism with resources, with access to educational materials that would help them.
My generation has been incredibly good at using new networks and technologies to organize protests, protests that were able to successfully impose agendas, roll back extremely pernicious legislation, and even overthrow authoritarian governments.
So, even if that wasn't enough to win a seat in Congress, it was enough for us to become part of the conversation, to the extent that next month, Congress, as an institution, is launching for the first time in Argentina's history, a DemocracyOS to discuss, with the citizens, three pieces of legislation: two on urban transportation and one on the use of public space.
In just a few years, we not only changed national legislation that made it much more difficult for civilians to buy a gun, but we collected and destroyed almost half a million weapons.
So the paradigm isn't exactly working, and I think our policymakers realize that, because in 2012, Mayor Bloomberg signed into law what he called the most ambitious and comprehensive open data legislation in the country.
And if you're a government agency releasing a PDF, let's pass legislation that requires you to post it with the underlying data, because that data is coming from somewhere.
In 1975, 13 years from startup, equal opportunity legislation came in in Britain and that made it illegal to have our pro-female policies.
In Hawaii, they're passing legislation to have 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.
The patent bar was deeply entrenched in the status quo, the biotech industry had grown up around this practice, and legislation to ban gene patents had been introduced year after year in Congress, and had gone absolutely nowhere.
We're seeing real movement to repeal some of the most evil, ugly gun lobby legislation passed over the last dark decade.
There's bipartisan legislation that had been introduced in the House and the Senate, but it isn't making as much progress as we'd like to see.
But it's best addressed with legislation targeting those specific abuses, not an entire industry.
But the lesson from New Zealand isn't just that its particular legislation is good, but that crucially, it was written in collaboration with sex workers; namely, the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective.
Lack of legislation and laws to adequately protect victims and punish perpetrators.
Our legislators must write and pass astute legislation that reflects today's technology and our notions of free and hate speech.
If you're a politician, or you work for one, or you just like talking to them, please get the city, state, federal and county legislation passed that we need in order to fund and support worker-owned businesses.
But people, like cities, are resilient, and no amount of legislation or intimidation or violence can fully eliminate any of us.
And to take part in the legislation and planning and budgeting, in all the decisions.
And they are now sitting in the councils, taking part actively in the legislation, planning and budgeting.
You have been accused, essentially, of protectionism, of jealousy, or using legislation to hit back at American companies that have conquered European markets.
It will refer you directly to your congressperson, to your U.S. senator, to your governor where divestment legislation is pending.
Legislation that was meant to better regulate its largest players has hurt its smaller ones, resulting in most of the industry's assets to be controlled by the top one percent.
Enacting and implementing legislation.
It looks at the need for the relevant legislation, addressing social norms, parent and caregiver support, responses for children who have experienced violence and abuse.
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