(Delta, like the other companies doing so, are only mandating this for LGBT employees who live in states where they legally can marry).
In September, conservative lawmakers who control the state assembly enacted a new measure mandating a 72-hour reflection period for women seeking abortions – even in the case of rape or incest.
"The state is mandating our water system to conserve water but why?... Getting one oil well fracked takes more water than the entire town can drink or use in a day".
Ethanol – We support the repeal of legislation mandating ethanol as fuel additives and/or primary fuel.
He calls for securing the border for "humanitarian" and "national security" reasons, while tracking visa overstays and mandating that employers use E-Verify.
But the judges stopped short of either ruling the program unconstitutional or mandating an end to it, punting to the already unfolding congressional debate for a resolution.
A few weeks later ministers in Chad approved a bill mandating prison sentences of 15 to 20 years for gay sex.
Acceptance of change sets the administration apart from left-wing Democrats, who vest naive hope in laws raising the minimum wage or mandating better foreign labour practices.
When she was health minister in 2009, she refused to be browbeaten into mandating an untested swine-flu vaccine, despite fears of a global epidemic.
A dozen people died then, and Joe Manchin, West Virginia's governor, passed a bill mandating better tracking and communications equipment and more air supply in mines.
What he has achieved with the legislative proposal is a hybrid system that lets governments choose between mandating a proper break-up of their country's vertically integrated energy giants, and two watered-down forms of separation.By his own admission Mr Piebalgs has "mixed feelings" about the compromise in the draft legislation that will now be submitted to parliamentarians.
