Last month, North Carolina's Senate sparked controversy by approving language in legislation (HB 819) that would have required the state's Coastal Resources Commission (CRC), which sets rules and policies for coastal development and grants permits, to base predictions of future sea level rise along the state's coast on a steady, linear rate of increase.
Earlier in the week, Arkansas lawmakers also tried to head off concerns about that state's bill, approving language that says "the General Assembly finds that it is a compelling governmental interest to comply with federal civil rights laws".
Ms. Livingston noted, however, that the Senate last night unanimously approved language easing the tax limits on charities.
They do, however, as I did in my Forest Service letter, draft and approve language on a raft of issues.
Late Thursday evening, House and Senate negotiators approved language on a larger agriculture spending bill to permit the sale of food, medicine and fertilizer to Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Libya and North Korea.
The panel might even approve language on Wednesday governing the sort of television commercials that state parties can use soft money to pay for, he said.
The Republican platform committee waded into the abortion debate again later on Tuesday when it approved language opposing drugs like RU-486, which can terminate pregnancies.
Over the weekend, the committee negotiating the Democratic Party platform, which will be adopted at the Party Convention, in Philadelphia, later this month, approved language backing a national minimum of fifteen dollars an hour, with the figure indexed to inflation.
Lowering prices is not obligatory, and this being France there are strict rules to follow if owners display the officially approved language that "the VAT is dropping, and prices too".
And it approved language that would block a Pentagon decision to privatize nearly 6,000 civilian and military jobs, including 531 at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.
The Washington Blade reported earlier today that the 15-member drafting committee for the Democratic platform approved "language endorsing same-sex marriage in addition to other pro-LGBT positions".
