Recently, Israel had built momentum turning back the international tide of unfair practices, including counter-BDS legislation successes at the U.S. state level.
Revisiting the legislation may be needed to make legislative success likely and to ensure that failure modes do not compromise goals.
The mayor also met Wednesday with the Senate majority leader, Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, who controls that body's schedule, and with three Republican senators whose willingness to compromise is crucial to any gun legislation's success: Susan Collins of Maine, Mark Steven Kirk of Illinois, both moderates, and John McCain of Arizona.
She called the legislation a success in spite of evidence that it hurt the poorest Americans--and minorities.
The New York legislation's success, in contrast, could lead judges in other states to say, "We don't need to intervene, let the political process work this through,"' Dorf said.
Even so, the industry that sells credit checks has remained firm, mounting a counterattack against legislation with some success.
Even before we get down to serious debate on climate legislation, Waxman's success yesterday in unseating the "Dean" from his perch in the most powerful House committee signals a new era for Congress when it comes to the environment.
There was an unmistakeable air of relief as sponsors of the legislation hailed their success.
Although not among the biggest lobbying spenders on Capitol Hill, firearm-related groups — both advocates for and opponents of gun rights —continued to press lawmakers early this year with left-leaning lawmakers still pushing about gun control legislation despite little success last year.
A plan for government-run insurance has been the focal point of the soon-to-be-concluded health care debate; the catalyst of white-hot partisan warfare; and the provision that progressive and conservatives alike have deemed the arbiter of whether legislation is a success.
