Legislation to make "technical corrections" has become relatively infrequent as Congressional partisanship has mounted over the decades, but it is still done to fix minor legislative glitches (the word "glitch" is a familiar presence in anything written about Obamacare these days).
Physician groups, medical device manufacturers, insurance companies and other businesses have rallied aging voters to protest even minor legislative changes.
While gridlock has prevented most attempts to modify the ACA, such restructuring could be initiated through relatively minor legislative moves — for example, by changing health savings account and ACA rules to allow people to purchase two policies, both from a physician cooperative and from a traditional insurance company in the form of catastrophic coverage.
Many believe that the way the Canadian public views abortion needs to change first before even minor legislative action can take place.
"In most cases, even minor legislative victories can produce economic dividends worth many times the amount of money contributed". A spokesman for the CMA, Lobbyist Jay D. Michael, denied Zelman's "investment" charge.
Women are a minority of legislative assistants (43 percent); legislative correspondents (40percentt); and legislative counsels (44percentt).
"Now the caste and communal consideration are pushed to the background and development is brought to the forefront," said N. K. Singh, the leader of a minor party that contested some legislative seats in the Bihar elections.
While there was only a minor retroactive effect to the law in this legislative iteration, it could be more severe next time.
Every now and then, Democrats quietly join them, hoping that a minor bill circling through the House Financial Services Committee will be overlooked in the grand legislative debates over taxes, health care and foreign policy.
Given recent history, if the coming legislative debate over gun control takes more than a few months, it would be a minor miracle if it were not at some point colored by yet another mass shooting.
Trump's arrogation of congressional power qualifies as a minor coup d'état: he has explicitly commandeered the most important constitutional power the power of the purse from the legislative branch, openly and in pure pretext.
