The project passed a major hurdle last May when the Interior Department, which controls the ocean floor, said that preparation of an environmental-impact statement could begin.
Plans for a review of the penalties for failure to pay the TV licence have passed a key hurdle in the House of Commons, paving the way for possible decriminalisation.
It passed a procedural hurdle in the Senate on Wednesday, in a vote 76-22 vote held immediately after the main trade promotion bill.
President Francois Hollande's plan to strip French citizenship from people convicted of terrorism passed a first hurdle on Tuesday when the lower house of parliament backed controversial proposals introduced after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris last November.
HONG KONG — The drawn-out battle over the proposed $2 billion privatization of the Hong Kong telecommunications company PCCW, one of Hong Kong's most closely followed corporate sagas, passed a legal hurdle Monday but the deal remains subject to an appeal by the city's securities monitoring agency.
The ballot measure, which passed a legal hurdle this week when the Colorado Supreme Court upheld an administrative panel's ruling about its wording, would give Colorado perhaps the most sweeping language in the nation about the rights of the unborn, legal experts said.
A bill to overhaul the US immigration system has passed a key hurdle after the Senate approved a $38bn £24bnn) increase in border security.
Shares of German bank Commerzbank fared better in Frankfurt trading, soaring 16.6%, to 5.17 euros ($7.31), after Germany's "bad bank" plan to help lenders temporarily rid themselves of toxic assets passed a political hurdle.
Shares of German bank Commerzbank fared better in Frankfurt trading, soaring 18.7%, after Germany's "bad bank" plan to help lenders temporarily rid themselves of toxic assets passed a political hurdle.
Earlier this week, legislation passed a procedural hurdle in the Senate, though it's clear that there is still plenty of right-wing opposition to a comprehensive package that provides a path to citizenship and doesn't focus primarily on border security.
