Ingenuous or not, Mr. de Souza and his colleagues have so irritated the government that a "gag law" proposal to prohibit prosecutors, judges and the police from making any public comment on pending cases, and punish violations with fines of up to $125,000 and three years in prison, has been revived and sent to Congress.
Updated at 9.59am GMT 9.47am GMT The Tory MP Ben Gummer explains his budget surplus law proposal (see 9.34am) in more detail in an article in the Financial Times (subscription).
In Lower Manhattan, wearing a red life jacket after a kayaking trip on the Hudson River yesterday, Mr. Pataki defended his drug law proposal as "comprehensive reform".
At a local level, UNICEF has been working with the Ministry of Health since 2001, when law proposal No 321 was written, to integrate Code provisions into Romanian legislation, and since 2004 it has assisted in the writing of several Code-based law proposals.
"This decision follows the Danish parliament's approval of the law proposal that allows seizing valuables and delaying family reunions for asylum seekers.
"I don't even know what this is doing in this state," he said of the Marsy's Law proposal.
World Rugby is to consider a package of new law proposals to be trialled after this autumn's World Cup, including a radical idea borrowed from rugby league that would allow an attacking team to kick the ball out and get the throw-in at the lineout.
Is there evidence that gun law proposals would have prevented the recent high-profile mass shootings?
In fact, the right to mother-tongue instruction has not been pursued in any parliamentary motions or law proposals since 2002.
The lower house, or Duma, passed the first reading of Mr. Putin's three-law proposal by a vote of 362 to 34.
Laws' proposal also offers councils a bigger role than Labour's proposals for local school officers, while the DfE contends that its new network of eight regional commissioners responsible for academy oversight will solve the problem.
