washington monthly

It started in 2005, when Tom Craddick, the first Republican speaker of the state legislature in more than a century, appointed Jerry Madden, a conservative from Plano, to run the House Committee on Corrections. ... The legislature signed off, but Governor Rick Perry vetoed the bill. . ..

asian human rights commission

As widely reported, the Philippines House of Representatives (Congress), the country’s legislative body, is lobbying to change the political system by amending the 1987 Constitution. ..

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nessel: michigan won't fund adoption agencies that refuse gay parents

The settlement,  sets up battle with Republican-led Legislature, which passed in 2015 that allows adoptions agencies to refuse to work with members of LGBTQ community.. ... James Lower, R-Cedar Lake, said the decision proves that Legislature was right when it passed late last year that..

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