COULD David Cameron have done anything different at Thursday night's EU summit, when he refused to sign Britain up to new EU treaty rules overseeing taxation and spending in the euro zone, after failing to secure safeguards to shift key areas of financial regulation to vote by unanimity?I was asked this question on the BBC today, and I did not come up with a good answer.
"In the past, we always had a detailed set of zoning regulations to vote on, and of course, every voter found something to object to, so it always failed," he said.
After seeing all of the rules and regulations of the voting stations circulating the internet – "no discussing politics", "be careful what you do with your phone" – I was a little worried about doing something wrong.
Ball point pens ultimately have more regulations than voting infrastructure.
Philip Davies, a self-confessed advocate of self-regulation who voted against the deal on Monday night, accused him of not being "straight".
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans, united in opposition to the Democrats' legislation to tighten regulation of the financial system, voted on Monday to block the bill from reaching the floor for debate.
Although he agreed with the four conservative justices, including Kennedy, that the individual mandate was not a regulation of interstate commerce, he voted with the Court's moderates to hold that it was justified as a tax.
Marcus Bowman, the head of the UK Chamber of Shipping, urged politicians from all parties to refrain from "whipping up a storm of concern" about issues ranging from the UK's place in Europe to taxation and regulation in pursuit of votes.
A handful of Republican senators have expressed support for net neutrality regulations, and three voted in favor of a resolution of disapproval seeking to overturn Pai's repeal of the earlier rules.
Not surprisingly, states such as Colorado, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with the loosest regulation of felon or ex-felon voting rights are the states where felons would have the weakest potential impact on the voting pool.
