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Now, I'm not here to tell you what kind of legislation you should or shouldn't support, but I am going to tell you that, if it matters to you, your legislators need to know that.
We elect the district attorneys, the judges and the legislators who operate these systems for we the people.
So, eight of us went to Sacramento in August and we met with the seven undecided legislators and we lobbied for AB32.
Instead, let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish, because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers, when taxpayers and citizens, agree that that's what we ought to be doing and that's how we ought to be spending our money.
Somebody put up a tool during the copyright debate last year in the Senate, saying, "It's strange that Hollywood has more access to Canadian legislators than Canadian citizens do.
So we have to appeal to them, the legislators in the state government, and turn to something they understand, that they have to promote the economic development of their state economy.
I've talked to a lot of directors of state economic development agencies about these issues, a lot of legislators about these issues.
When legislators and others think about economic development, what they first of all think about are business tax incentives, property tax abatements, job creation tax credits, you know, there are a million of these programs all over the place.
Now you can get much higher returns, of up to 16-to-one, if you include anti-crime benefits, if you include benefits to former preschool participants who move to some other state, but there's a good reason for focusing on these three dollars because this is salient and important to state legislators and state policy makers, and it's the states that are going to have to act.
It's happening across the globe, and one of my favorite examples is from Mexico City, where earlier this year, the Mexico House of Representatives entered into a contract with a software development firm to build an app that legislators would use to track bills.
So this was just for the handful of legislators in the House.
Their essay would go viral, get translated into many languages, get debated at pubs and coffee houses and salons, and at dinner parties, and influence leaders, legislators, popular opinion.
That's why we need to learn what the bankers have learned: the recipe for the best way to rob a bank, so that we can stop that recipe, because our legislators, who are dependent on political contributions, will not do it on their own.
So our legislators cannot analyze the budget that they are voting for.
We visited not only with prosecutors but with legislators, with inmates in our state and local prisons.
Our legislators must write and pass astute legislation that reflects today's technology and our notions of free and hate speech.
I'm talking to you, legislators, and the voters who elect them.
In fact, very recently a bipartisan group of more than 60 legislators wrote to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell asking that she, at the Federal level, expedite access for Florida to this new technology.
I actually shared that with some legislators here in the U.S. I shared it with a gentleman called Bobby Kennedy Jr., who is one of my idols.
It was really interesting to watch the legislators explain why they were voting either "for" or "against", but even more interesting to see the whole process of how ordinary people can make a difference, working with the legislators, or opposing them.
The film humanizes the gay marriage debate, focusing not only on the emotional impact of marriage for individual same-sex couples, but also the under-dog fight faced by local legislators and those in political action committees who have devoted their lives to the issue.
Eventually, New York legislators would grudgingly vote to support Arizona, on the condition that Arizona implement a strict and humiliating austerity program, and California would begin to support federal programs that aim to stabilize the “dollar zone.”
These and similar phrases have been common currency among American legislators, regulators, and financial firms for decades.
Social protections should be framed in laws enacted by democratically elected legislators, who are well placed to weigh the costs and benefits for their constituents.
Natural monopolies are sometimes economically desirable, and it is legislators, not judges, who should decide whether and when they are to be permitted.
"Social rights" should not become mandates for judges; they should remain a guide to legislators.
Legislators, of course, have different preferences about what kinds of laws to support, which can make it hard to study mechanisms of political influence precisely.
In addition to analyzing information about lobbying expenditures, the authors map out the network connections of lobbyists (known collectively as “K Street,” because so many have their Washington offices there) and legislators.
For example, lobbyists were often previously employed by legislators on their staffs.
A big increase in lobbying expenditures helps to persuade legislators to switch their votes.
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