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Instead of introducing more legislation that is tainted both in the popular imagination and in its utility, Britain could, after all, trust its constitution to act as and when required to safeguard liberty and fair play.
Whistleblowers, encouraged to come forward by legal protections enshrined in the agency’s founding legislation, would provide leads for the investigators.
We have a highly developed national human rights legislation and practice, as well as a strong and independent judiciary.
Across Africa, governments are enacting legislation to restrict Internet access and outlaw criticism of elected officials.
Moreover, civil-society groups, the African Union, and the UN should do more to condemn national legislation that aims to normalize restrictive Internet policies.
Last year, Tanzania adopted legislation that has already been used to charge individuals with crimes who have criticized President John Magufuli on social media.
This would limit the disruptions to decision-making, personnel, and legislation that seem to occur every few months, thereby allowing important policies to be implemented efficiently.
If reform legislation reduces Medicaid benefits, the individuals who lose benefits would continue to receive free care in outpatient departments, emergency rooms, and as hospital in-patients.
The Republican Bankruptcy IllusionWASHINGTON, DC – There is now near-unanimity that the United States’ Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, enacted in 2010, did not end the problems associated with some banks being “too big to fail.”
Both legislation and the forces of competition and consumer demand are driving companies to disclose more about their products and to respond to consumer queries.
The lawyers and corporate elites who draft and enact the legislation and regulations that govern globalization are disconnected from those who are supposed to implement the policies at the local level.
The first has been to rely on the Republican majorities in the two houses of Congress to pass legislation in the face of strong popular opposition.
Without control of the House, however, Trump will no longer be able to enact any unpopular legislation.
In this simplified system, legislation will be called legislation, and executive regulations, as in most legal systems, will fill in the gaps in primary legislation.
It is likely that the Guardian Council, which can veto legislation and bar candidates from standing in elections, will use its power to shift the balance in favor of Ahmadinejad’s conservative critics.
As a result, all legislation can be threatened by the oppositions veto, blocking any reform that harms the opposition's constituents.
Nigeria is reorganizing its state oil company, introducing transparency legislation, and launching sweeping audits of the oil and gas sector.
Aside from prosecuting some bad apples, measures to fight corruption typically involve reforming procurement rules, public financial-management systems, and anti-corruption legislation.
In 2009, under pressure from the aid community, the government enacted what was billed at the time as the best anti-corruption legislation in the world; and yet all corruption indicators have continued to worsen.
This year’s legislation will be the first major reform of the US tax system in three decades.
Yet the anti-Obamacare crusade has just been dealt a crushing blow, owing to the refusal of some Republican senators to vote for the replacement legislation.
In any case, Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress, so they don’t actually need the Democrats’ support to pass legislation.
According to the estimates produced by the Congressional Budget Office, which has a very good track record, the Republicans’ proposed health-care legislation would have caused more than 20 million Americans to lose insurance coverage.
Its lobbyists told the SEC commissioners that current rules already did everything possible to ensure safety; that retail investors want money-market funds’ steady value; that change would hurt all investors; and that the recent Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation disrupts regulators’ ability to bail out money-market funds next time.
On May 17, the European Parliament adopted a resolution criticizing legislation in Hungary that would force CEU to shut down.
Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the House of Commons recently passed a resolution along the same lines as the proposed US legislation.
And yet, there they are, denouncing as “socialism” Obama’s health-care legislation, or a slight tax increase for the richest 1% of the population.
That effort appears to have backfired, because the Republicans that he leads initially balked at passing the legislation.
So trying to squelch the party -- in court, at the hands of the military, or through legislation -- may only flaw Turkey's political system further.
Tougher enforcement of minimum-wage and other legislation protecting workers is needed as well, so that we allay fears that migrants are forcing a race to the bottom.
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