Amending Illinois’ constitution to allow for a graduated income tax would require support from at least 60% of lawmakers in both chambers of the state’s General Assembly, as well as voter approval. ..…
but in religion, this amounts to legislature presenting religious belief as fact. ..…
Pope Francis confirmed his desire and hope to visit South Sudan soon, adding that this future visit would be together with Welby and and Moderator of General Assembly of Church of Scotland.. ..…
In December 1811, the Speaker of House received letter from the speaker of Mississippi Territorial legislature, one Cowles Mead. ..…
For Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes and property, in keeping with United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194, when 83 percent of Palestinians in the territory that became Israel fled or were forced to flee. ..…
President Weah and Liberian legislature should request assistance from United Nations for establishing war crimes court, along with Liberia's other international partners, such as European Union, African Union, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden.. Truth and Reconciliation..…
The Republican-controlled legislature in Utah voted to expand Medicaid only to people earning up to 100 percent of the poverty threshold, instead of 138 percent, and, at the same time, demanded that the federal government reimburse Utah at the 90 percent rate as if the state had properly expanded..…
Today, Governor and New York State Legislature passed landmark and historic justice reform. ... Heastie and other Democrats in Legislature have said and that they chose to leave violent felony offenses out of the final deal to come to budget. ..…
In years past, that AFSCME-backed bill would’ve sailed through the General Assembly and been signed into law. . ... However, since the ban on rent control was imposed by a law approved by the legislature, it would take an act of the General Assembly to reverse..…
Kentucky's open records law survives legislature, but watch out . Amye Bensenhaver Opinion contributor . ..…
Delaware Legislature set to debate . Xerxes Wilson Delaware News Journal . ..…
We support New York Legislature acting now to pass legislation to increase the minimum age, ment after Assembly bill passed... ..…
In 1838, the New York State Legislature wrote: . “With us it is wisely ordered that no one religion shall be established by law, but that all persons shall be left free in their choice and in their mode of worship. . ..…
During rally at Capitol this month, Bevin, celebrated the anti-abortion measures being passed through the legislature and called the most pro-life America... ..…
As mentioned above, Tokyo Medical University received grant money to “promote women’s activities” and Suzuki Mamoru, then-president of the university and an initiator of the quotas on female admissions, publicly endorsed policies advocated by the Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office’s annual..…
Andrea Horwath speaks to reporters outside the legislature at Queen's Park on Oct. 3, 2018. ... Countless times, the legislature questioned his decisions and said that’s not the way things are done. ..…
Then simply being at the General Assembly day to day with no clients to tend to meant I saw and wrote about other stories being missed, mainly because there are so few reporters compared to when I started in the mid 1980s. ..…
But the tools belong to the legislature that can use them. . The lockbox procedure would not be a parliamentary straitjacket. ..…
“The only way we can help the legislature see the problem and advocate for funding is to be able to get information,” she says. ... Today on the Yakama Reservation, 200 miles from the Washington Legislature, Rosenda Strong’s family and friends are still searching. ..…
changes to Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and Mutual Legal Assistance Criminal Matters Ordinance would expand the scope for the transfer of criminal suspects to China and remove the legislature's right to scrutinize extradition decisions filed by Hong Kong's chief executive.. ..…
“The declaration stated that parties would keep away from representing themselves at the executive and sovereign level and would only be represented in the legislative assembly. . ..…