Some of these harsh realities are due to a lack of access to information and contraceptives, which result from the significant influence Catholic and conservative evangelical churches wield in the government, congress, universities and society.
In order to maintain a functioning government, Congress needs to finance the programs it has enacted.
Given the change of government, Congress may well try to cut off all aid to Lebanon and the Lebanese Army.
Is there a long-term plan anywhere in government?" Congress selected Yucca Mountain as its first choice for a waste site in 1987, pending engineering studies.
Rather than saying government, Congress or the executive branch, it is time to call these entities what they really are: Republicans and Democrats.
Its proponents — foremost among them Sonia Gandhi, president of the party that leads the coalition government, Congress — counter that increased political representation is vital for India's women to overcome discrimination and inequality.
As long as the sequester mentality maintains its grip on government, Congress won't pass actual budgets, just an endless series of continuing resolutions that repair a few of the worst highways and bridges and invest in nothing new.
A scandal over illegal payments to legislators and irregular party financing has already toppled leaders of government, Congress and the ruling Workers Partyy (PT), to which Mr Palocci belongs.
A major purpose of the Reconstruction amendments at the heart of the voting rights case, after all, was to empower the national government – Congress – to make the states behave.
The framers meant for the legislative branch to be the most important actor in the federal government: Congress was to make the laws and the president was empowered only to execute them.
In the federal government, Congress holds the purse strings, and these days it has largely abandoned the annual budgeting process for irregular spending agreements between the two parties, the latest of which was reached last week.
