The nature of health care reform opens the door to potential legislative mischief as lobbyists attempt to "correct" legislation that is doing its job fine, thank you.
It voted to correct a legislative mistake that has had cruel consequences for thousands of legally admitted aliens: the retroactive deportation feature of the 1996 Immigration Act.
Updated | to clarify the contentions of critics about the law's application to Congressional staff members, and with a postscript correcting the legislative history of the Grassley amendment.
Flaws in a democratic nation that could be and generally were corrected by legislative and constitutional process are being compared with the murder and starvation of tens of millions of people in a social engineering experiment that created one of the century's worst horrors.
But it also documented a national pattern of employment discrimination, unequal pay, legal inequality, and meagre support services for working women that needed to be corrected through legislative guarantees of equal pay for equal work, equal job opportunities, and expanded child-care services.
Yet when the House of Representatives undertakes a constitutionally correct, i.e., legislative, procedure for suspending the other mandate — the individual mandate — this is portrayed as some extra-constitutional sabotage of the rule of law.
President Obama is absolutely correct in that legislative agreement on missile defense is not something that could get through Congress this year.
The action of the House of Representatives in correcting a cruel legislative mistake that caused immigrants to be deported for minor offenses is laudable.
Second, the issues clearly have important implications for the balance of power, not only among the Member States and among the institutions, but also between the Member States and the institutions; this will explain why the Court of Justice has recently seen so much litigation over the "correct legal basis" of legislative enactments.
But his words do little to correct the effects his legislative pen had on millions of black families.
