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As elected legislators, all have demonstrated the “soft power” skills of attracting others to vote for them, but as for whether they will also be manager-leaders, the jury is still out.
Citizens have been contacting their legislators to demand better representation of their interests.
Opposition legislators wanted electoral reform, but no new taxes; the administration wanted more revenues, but no new election laws.
The social media companies, wary of coming under attack for censorship, want to avoid regulation by legislators who criticize them for both sins of omission and commission.
And Congress is unlikely to use its authority to play a more assertive role if legislators wed themselves to the recent past.
Still mindful of Congress’ critical role in war-making, Jefferson asked for and received ratification when legislators returned.
The example of recent weeks gives us no cause for optimism that US legislators will rise above partisan politics and ask themselves what is best for America.
And he has acknowledged that he is no “fan” of Israel’s right-wing prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu; indeed, Sanders was among the legislators who boycotted Netanyahu’s controversial address to Congress last March.
But, above all, it is an honor and a privilege to play such a role in our society, and I know that the vast majority of officials, legislators, judges, and civil servants with whom I’ve worked would agree.
Ending the Financial Arms RaceCAMBRIDGE – People often ask if regulators and legislators have fixed the flaws in the financial system that took the world to the brink of a second Great Depression.
Some civic groups have advocated increasing the number of directly elected legislators and opening up the functional constituencies to broader electorates.
In recent years, Austrian animal-welfare organizations have been remarkably successful in persuading voters and legislators to support laws phasing out cages for egg-laying hens, cages for raising rabbits for meat, and raising animals for fur.
What would be easy arbitrage using the Internet and delivery services gets stopped in its tracks by trade organizations and manufacturers who convince legislators and/or bureaucrats to protect their monopoly rents.
Had the majority of legislators gotten their way, many of Poland’s 3.2 million Jews would have gone meatless.
Yet when legislators voted on the government’s bill earlier this month, following a sometimes-hysterical debate on ritual slaughter in the media, three dozen deputies from Tusk’s Civic Platform, the largest faction in the Sejm, opposed it.
He also exercises a total grip over the allocation of the DPJ’s state subsidy to individual DPJ legislators.
With the LDP suffering from organizational sclerosis, Ozawa and some four dozen fellow legislators of the Tanaka faction broke away from the LDP in 1993 in a bid to build a two-party system.
Rwanda, meanwhile, has the highest percentage of female legislators in the world.
Now just imagine the problems that legislators in developed democracies will face when they must explain why billions of dollars and euros should be handed over to China, whose deliberately undervalued currency is costing their constituents their jobs.
And she predicted that empirical evidence and expert knowledge will still carry substantial – if not full – weight in decision-making by legislators, presidents, and their advisers.
“Banks will need to hold more capital” is a common refrain, describing efforts by regulators – and, in the United States, some legislators – to require that financial institutions fund themselves with relatively more equity and less debt.
As elected legislators in ASEAN’s established and budding democracies, the members of AIPMC feel that our voices have merit and legitimacy.
The low representation of women in legislatures is not only a symbol of flaws in the functioning of Latin American democracies; it also means that women legislators are unable to bring their intrinsically different approaches to policy into play.
Between 1991 and 2000, twelve Latin American countries adopted legislation requiring minimum percentages of women on the party lists used for the election of national legislators.
But, despite this legislation, the percentage of women legislators in many of these countries remains very low.
Indeed, another necessary component of such reforms is the adoption of medium-sized to large-sized districts for the election of national legislators.
As nearly 40% of Latin American legislators are the only legislator from their party elected in a district, this poses a real barrier to women.
But, in their laudable desire to distance themselves as much as possible from those atrocities, Germany’s legislators have enacted a law that makes it a crime to use modern science to avoid undoubted human tragedies.
And the dealers, suppliers, workers, regulators, and legislators in every country who now have to deal with the aftermath feel betrayed as well.
Uribe has spent weeks directly and personally lobbying key American legislators, and he is undoubtedly his own best advocate.
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