On 10 July 2012, the Dáil, the lower house of Parliament, referred the issue of whether to make provision for same-sex marriage to the Constitutional Convention, to report back in a year.
Some lawmakers are weighing whether to revise provisions that could appear anti-consumer and politically unseemly after a corporate collapse that hurt thousands of workers and investors.
Other CCGs are consulting on whether to reduce their provision of IVF, including West Essex, Mid Essex and Southend.
By Sept. 1, the Treasury secretary must decide whether to extend a provision that requires insurance companies to make terrorism coverage available.
The Patriot Act provision that underlies the call-records program is scheduled to sunset on 1 June, and over the next three weeks Congress must decide whether to reauthorize the provision, scale it back or allow it to expire.
But Democratic leaders in the House and Senate now have to decide whether to keep this provision in a major appropriations bill that includes popular programs to fight AIDS and malaria globally, knowing that President Bush is likely to veto it.
Because it is not part of the House immigration bill, a committee from both houses would have to decide whether to include the provision on nurses if the full Congress approves the legislation.
But the vote is nonbinding; the real decision will come when a House-Senate conference committee considers whether to insert the provision passed into a larger labor spending bill.
Mr. Reid must also weigh whether to add a provision that would extend background checks to private sales of guns, a measure that would exempt family members and some others from those checks.
But the Lutheran assembly had much internal business before it, including electing a presiding bishop, deciding whether to add a provision to an ecumenical agreement and debating whether it should undertake a study of how Lutherans should relate to gays and lesbians.
The differences include how much investigative and enforcement power to give to a new regulatory panel overseeing the accounting industry, how much to limit the consulting work that accounting firms can do for publicly traded companies they audit, and whether to keep other provisions that Democrats say are crucial protections but that some Republicans say would be a gravy train for trial lawyers.
