Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky of Westchester, chairman of a committee that oversees the authority, questioned whether the authority had the power to change its budget process without legislation.
Hans Michelbach, a member of the governing coalition, was quoted by Bloomberg News as saying that lawmakers had told Finance Minister Wolfgang Sch?le at a briefing Wednesday that they could process the legislation in about 10 days.
The genius of "Lincoln," as we all have said, is that it's not an epic or a bio-pic but a charged account of one month in the President's life — a film about democratic process and legislation, and thus, inevitably, about pressure, patronage, guilt-mongering, deception.
"Those responsible in the criminal justice system know that everything has been done with the process and legislation," she says, "and we are now at a really dangerous place where they might start to look at measures such as restorative justice, or downgrading 'date rape' and differentiating it from what many see as 'real' rape, involving a stranger and a back alley".
Once the process of legislation is embarked upon, there is the danger that the big moral questions, far from being resolved, will be dispersed through a multitude of procedural questions; that the difference between mercy and murder will be lost in an ostensibly civilised bureaucracy of clinical killing.
As a result, I've increasingly found myself a supporter of messy public process: the legislation pushed through government slowly, in curtailed form; the interminable, fruitless-seeming town-hall meeting; many of the government's lumbering, error-prone efforts at regulation.
"In August of 2005, I got an e-mail saying that the embassy had a need for someone with private-practice and government experience to work with the Iraqi Prime Minister's legal office in developing its process for legislation," Miranda said over the telephone the other day.
It is time to change the regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops toward a more science based process — agnostic legislation.
Which is why we'd encourage you to go and give your feedback on this issue to the government's newly created feedback process on legislation.
