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Defenders of the program point out that it is consistent with current law and with America’s constitutional philosophy of checks and balances, because both the legislative and judicial branches approved it.
The one positive feature of the reforms – a scheme aimed at ensuring equal radio and television airtime for parties during electoral campaigns – was tainted by serious legislative omissions.
But over the last decade and a half, the Parliament has worked hard to secure more power, elbowing its way into the formal legislative process, securing for itself oversight authority, and even inserting itself into the process of selecting the European Commission president.
The first step is to improve the legislative framework.
New liquefied natural gas terminals in Europe and legislative changes in the United States to enable the export of America’s burgeoning energy supplies will demonstrate to Russia that its window of energy-based leverage is closing.
To reverse America’s decline, Obama needs bipartisan support for his (quite mainstream) policies, but so far the US Congress has shown no stomach for a principled approach to its legislative duties.
Italians will vote on whether to strip the Senate (the parliament’s upper house) of two-thirds of its members and much of its legislative authority, making it merely a talking shop akin to Germany’s Bundesrat, and return some of the regions’ powers to the central government.
The administrative route might turn out to be even more important than the legislative route.
With the energy transition law, my government aims to get ahead of this trend by creating the legislative framework for future “green” growth.
Other policymaking entities – particularly those with potentially more effective tools to help the economy reach escape velocity – need to act but are hampered by legislative impasse.
Now, however, the wave has suddenly receded: following Emmanuel Macron’s big wins in France’s presidential and legislative elections, we are supposedly living in a “post-populist moment.”
So he or she might advocate making the central bank independent in order to reduce political meddling, and changing the framework for managing fiscal policy – setting up fiscal rules, for example, or allowing only an up-or-down legislative vote on budget proposals.
During the recent siege of the Legislative Palace, an officer of the National Guard assaulted Julio Borges, the president of the National Assembly – the only institution with any legitimacy left.
Indeed, he may not even object to ruining the EU’s entire legislative engine by granting national parliaments a veto.
But we advocate parliamentarism – genuine separation of executive and legislative power – in Georgia.
Ever since, a country that had never truly experienced democratic rule has enjoyed all the charms and vicissitudes of competitive elections, legislative battles, and rotation in power.
For example, to minimize the risks associated with operating in an unfamiliar regulatory and legislative environment, businesses should establish links in advance with a local entity to guide their activities.
Flake is one of 100 members of America’s highest legislative body.
I said in my maiden speech in the Legislative Council in 1985 that the policy of “one country, two systems” cannot work without democracy.
Taiwan’s December 2004 legislative elections had delivered an unexpected defeat for Chen and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, and the pro-independence camp’s failure to secure a legislative majority was seen as a positive development for relations with the mainland.
The outcome was paralysis: an entire session of the parliament ended with not a single item of legislative, governmental, or other business completed.
When Mubarak became president in 1981, parliament granted him the right to control all military contracts without legislative oversight.
Legislative complexity is growing exponentially in parallel.
As Haldane notes, even the celebrated “Volcker rule,” intended to build a better wall between more mundane commercial banking and riskier proprietary bank trading, has been hugely watered down as it grinds through the legislative process.
China, fearing that the law could be used to move Taiwan towards independence, reacted strongly even before the referendum bill was approved by the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan's parliament.
With pressure mounting for legislative action, India last year finally adopted a law banning workplace sexual harassment.
America’s Race to the Ballot’s BottomWASHINGTON, DC – Hillary Clinton’s US presidential campaign has been torn between trying to secure the largest possible victory for the candidate herself and explicitly helping fellow Democratic gubernatorial and legislative candidates further down the ballot.
But even if the Democrats do regain a majority in the 100-member Senate, Republicans will still be able to hold the threat of a filibuster – which requires 60 votes to break – over Clinton’s legislative proposals and nominations to the executive branch and Supreme Court.
Both parties want to strengthen their hold on as many state-level offices as possible, because the party that controls a state’s governorship and at least one of its legislative chamber gets to oversee how congressional districts are drawn (which happens every ten years).
The first issue concerns not just the immediate question of the terms on which the Chief Executive will be elected in 2017, but also how the Legislative Council should be elected in 2016 and after.
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