The hope was that if enough Americans began protecting their electronic mail, just as postal mail is protected by envelopes, the legislation would become pointless.
May laid out plans for a "great repeal bill", under which four decades of EU legislation would become part of British law and could then be unpicked.
Albany's famous "three men in a room" — the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate majority leader, who negotiate the state budget and major legislation — would become a quartet.
A1 Moving Toward Hate-Crime Law The State Senate is expected to pass its first hate-crimes bill today, and members of the Assembly predicted that some form of hate-crime legislation would become law this year.
They also say it would be a recipe for failure, because any Bush proposal that Republicans tried to enact as legislation would become an inviting political target for Democrats.
The idea was that flaws in the legislation would become more apparent over time and that the continuing debate would motivate conservatives to vote in the 2014 midterm elections.
"It is conceivable that the re-proposed legislation would become a Christmas tree on which every ornament of corporate reform and governance will be hung," said Susan Hackett, the general counsel of a trade group for corporate lawyers, the Association of Corporate Counsel.
"It is conceivable that the reproposed legislation would become a Christmas tree on which every ornament of corporate reform and governance will be hung," said Susan Hackett, the general counsel of a trade group for corporate lawyers, the Association of Corporate Counsel.
