The White House sent draft legislative wording to the House and Senate leaders on Saturday evening, which authorised actions designed only to neuter the threat of chemical weapons or to prevent their proliferation.
Other civil libertarians and NSA whistleblowers – including mass-surveillance insiders Thomas Drake, Bill Binney, Ed Loomis and Kirk Wiebe – opposed the USA Freedom Act, fearing that its vague legislative wording about what constitutes a "connection" between call records could inadvertently expand NSA authorities.
Legislative words are warped and distorted to mean what industry wants them to mean.
Sean Costello, Ayers's legislative aide, said word of Quincy's ambitions had blown up the office phones with calls of support – and grousing.
And the third point is perhaps the most crucial, even though – containing as it does the word "legislative" – for some it might sound like the most boring, but it is key because of the growing scale of renewable energy provision.
In "Judging Statutes," which will be released next week, Katzmann makes a powerful case that judges should pay attention to legislative history — the words of members of Congress in debates, the committee reports explaining laws, and all of the source material that reflects how Congress really works.
Legislation to make "technical corrections" has become relatively infrequent as Congressional partisanship has mounted over the decades, but it is still done to fix minor legislative glitches (the word "glitch" is a familiar presence in anything written about Obamacare these days).
In other words, the legislative process, though messy and sometimes unappetizing, can produce healthy, wholesome results.
The bill's legislative supporters, in other words, are a delightfully motley crew, spanning the ideological spectrum from Orange County conservative to Berkeley liberal.
The president and Mrs. Clinton delivered the text of their legislative proposal, a 240,000-word document, to Congress on Oct. 27, 1993.
They have also lived through a parallel legislative revolution in which words, attitudes and behaviours that were normal in 1945 are now illegal.
