The action is indeed one of the more consequential reforms of the Obama era, paving the way for more than four million Americans to receive a bigger paycheck when they work more than 40 hours a week.
Instead, what we are witnessing is more like (what I call) "refolution": the gradual-procedural transformation of a political order, through deepening democratic engagement and consequential reforms within the boundaries of the existing constitutional order.
Having made the fateful and perilous choice to go to war with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the West now owes a debt to the wider — and strategically far more consequential — Arab reform movement that only an end to his regime can honor.
The evidence is strong that AVR would be the most consequential voting rights reform in decades.
Among Progressives, though, there were consequential debates over what reform consisted of.
The most consequential opposition to the reforms now under consideration is coming from a small group of Blue Dog Democrats, who protest that the plan does too little to control costs.
At the moment, Trump is presiding over a series of hugely consequential talks in Congress about immigration reform, a policy area that Graham has worked on for years.
"You'd have a hard time in an election year, in any event, but I think the Walmart case is so consequential, it basically freezes the possibility of reform any time soon".
Such a result would support our alternative hypothesis that the ramifications of medical malpractice reforms for health insurance are consequential.
