He said he did not listen to the nuns when it came to writing legislative language related to abortion. 1 2 Next Page » David M. Herszenhorn contributed reporting from Washington, Jeff Zeleny from New Orleans and Emma Graves Fitzsimmons from Chicago.
Last week, Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida wrote legislative leaders in his state to warn them about anticipated revenue shortfalls, including the expected loss of $210 million from the estate tax in the 2002-03 fiscal year.
Energetic governors, by contrast, can write a legislative resume that cuts across many fields and can be marketed as a coherent body of work.
And once in power they used the traditional committee process ― if not so much to write the legislative language then at least to give the media, interest groups and ultimately the public an opportunity to understand what was up for discussion and eventually form an opinion on that. .
President Obama should continue his largely-successful strategy of identifying the broad concepts of legislation he requests of Congress, and then allowing the Legislative Branch to write such legislation in its own fashion, as our Constitution lays out.
wrote, "State legislative action on this matter will be a significant challenge and progress on this proposal is largely outside of the city's control".
"He agreed to 'end welfare as we know it' on Republican terms that were very different from his original terms," said Kent Weaver, a political scientist at the Brookings Institution who has written a legislative history of the law.
Judge Norton, appointed by the elder President George Bush, wrote, "The legislative history of this act supports a finding that Congress did not intend to impose a universal notice-posting requirement on employers, nor did it authorize the board to do so".
In The Washington Post this week, Noel Koch, who as a Nixon speechwriter wrote a legislative message on the draft's end, said nonetheless that the draft had "shattered class distinctions" in the military, mixing high school dropouts with college graduates, rich with poor.
Should negotiations fail, she wrote, "the legislative and executive branches will move with speed and unity, backed by America's allies, to institute even tougher sanctions", a suggestion that punitive measures on Iran will remain an option should Clinton be elected president.
