As a result, bills like the Patents Amendment Bill (drafted 2000) and the Industrial Property Bill (drafted 2001), both of which make changes to the current patent legislation, have been drafted and are awaiting discussion in parliament.
More than half of the Republicans voted against the bill drafted by their own leaders.
The White House said it "strongly supports" the overall Senate budget bill, drafted by Republicans.
The most recent bill, drafted by human rights advocates and specialised NGOs, is now ready for the first reading.
President Dilma Rousseff on Friday vetoed portions of Brazil's new Forest Code, a bill drafted to open big areas of protected forests to large-scale agriculture.
A new bill drafted by Steve Baker, the legislative liaison for the Cook County public defender's office, is under review by House Democratic aides.
Some industry lobbyists now expect that bipartisan negotiations will break down -- but that a bill drafted by Democrats will be enacted anyway with a few Republican defections.
The bill, drafted by conservatives in the old parliament, would authorise the state to imprison editors and writers who published articles deemed to undermine "Islamic values".
A third bill, drafted in response to the Father's Day 2001 explosion in Queens that killed three firefighters, was also unanimously approved.
The first is a bill (drafted by none other than IPG's counsel, (see PDF here), which introduces the disingenuous notion of "ancillary copyright".
The bill, drafted by Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, the chairman of the Finance Committee, would repeal the part of the 2003 law that prohibits such negotiations.
