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Court cases and legislation were put off while a Government committee, headed by the former Finance Minister Yaakov Neeman, tried to work out a compromise.

The Democratic leaders in the Senate had been planning to consider welfare reform after the election, but after Mr. Scott's comments they ex pressed the suspicion that the Republicans would not be too unhappy if the legislation were put aside so they could blame a Democratic Congress for blocking one of the most im port pieces of domestic legisla tion proposed by the Adminis tration.

The Bible makes adultery a capital crime; if that legislation were put into practice, we'd knock out a third of our population.

A regulatory approach allows for more bargaining, not only in the legislative process but also, over time, in the rule-making process as legislation is put into effect.

We raised this as soon as the legislation was put forward.

In each of these cases, well-funded deniers have had to be exposed and confronted before appropriate health-promoting legislation was put in place.

Meanwhile, in the UK David Cameron's enthusiasm for plain packaging stopped dead in its tracks and the legislation was put on hold because of "considerable legal uncertainty".

Suddenly, with the public appalled at the scandalous way the health care legislation was put together, and with Democrats facing a possible debacle in the fall, Mr. Obama is back in campaign mode.

But they never recommended the legislation be put off and in the end they were unable to win any last-second converts to change the votes that would have been necessary to turn defeat into victory.

Speaking on Radio National on Monday, Labor industry spokesman Kim Carr said Labor wanted to defend penalty rates, but would wait to see the decision of the Fair Work Commission and what legislation was put forward to protect them.

Standing as an independent, Mallon won the new mayoral post by landslide in 2002, just two years after the necessary legislation was put in place by the Labour government.