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In their attempts to affect public policy, business organizations influence government personnel, as well as legislators.
For the first time since the early 1920’s, Mexican legislators and mayors will be allowed to seek reelection to consecutive terms.
Legislators in one chamber would be selected on the basis of merit and competency, and in the others on the basis of elections of some kind.
But, whatever the failures of particular British legislators, the issues go further than merely allowing voters to “throw the rascals out.”
In April 2004, China's legislators ruled out universal suffrage in Hong Kong's 2007 election of its chief executive, as well as for its 2008 Legislative Council election.
Only 199,000 voters, some of them representatives from corporations, elect the legislators who fill these seats.
After 1997, Hong Kong's government made doubly sure that legislators' already limited powers to initiate debates, legislation, and amendments to laws were further restricted.
If the government can influence 16 of the 30 functional votes, it can thwart proposals from the directly elected legislators.
Hong Kong's government felt it could ignore public opinion and push the bill through with a large majority of the functional members, plus a handful of directly elected pro-government legislators.
Iraqi legislators are considering reducing the age for child marriage to nine.
High public-sector debt, for example, signals the possible need for tax increases – the opposite of the tax legislation being advanced by Republican legislators in the United States – and/or higher interest rates (real or nominal, depending on monetary policy and inflation).
Chilean legislators will have to make difficult choices with hard-to-quantify tradeoffs.
Some of the state assemblies in India’s federal system have already witnessed scenes of furniture upended, microphones ripped out, and slippers flung by unruly legislators, not to mention fistfights and garments torn in scuffles.
But this definition, while forthright, leaves a large loophole for legislators.
Such oaths are common for legislators.
And, in fact, Hong Kong’s government is now launching legal challenges against four more legislators – all relatively moderate pro-democracy activists – arguing that their oaths of office were also invalid.
The institution has been in near-imperceptible decline for almost 20 years, thanks to the rise of the European Parliament and the way EU member governments have whittled away its authority while consolidating their own powers as the EU’s true legislators.
This is what German legislators concocted: workers who have been with a firm for more than 6 months can demand reduced hours.
Serious Harm By ResearchThe media, legislators, and other organizations often raise concerns about human-rights violations and ethical breaches in clinical research.
The women, facing a crowd of furious men calling them “whores” and other epithets, marched two miles under a rain of abuse and delivered their petition against the law to legislators.
But the greatest surprise was in India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh (with a population of 200 million), where 402 legislators were elected to its massive state assembly.
It is very hard to make legislators understand these delicate distinctions.
The Killings in ColombiaThe murder of 11 provincial legislators held hostage by Colombia’s FARC guerrillas is a reminder of that country’s eternal agony.
And, although South Korea has slipped to 80th place in the IPU’s most recent rankings, the fall reflects subsequent growth in the proportion of female legislators in other countries.
Now, it is possible that Republican legislators may rebel against their leaders, arguing that they ran for office to govern, not to paralyze the government in the hope that doing so will give the party power to reign as it wishes after the next election.
And it draws on the experience of many types of leaders – including former heads of state, legislators, successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople, artists, and academics – from around the world.
Measures that some legislators favor, such as transforming coal into liquids, increase secure supplies, but they imply more carbon dioxide emissions than imported oil does.
After exploring this issue with legislators in several countries over the past couple of months, it has become abundantly clear that many do not have a full grasp of the myriad issues that need to be considered.
Legislators need to educate themselves – and the public – and exercise more oversight.
Obama officials assured me that Simpson had, indeed, had a change of heart; that he was a smart man with a sophisticated understanding of the issues; that he could sway reporters and get them to describe the commission’s advice as “bipartisan” (even though he could not sway actual legislators); and that he would be a genuine asset to the substantive work of the commission.
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