#Legislative

Looking at the races where there were scandal-plagued incumbents. All of them won. It doesn't seem that scandals affect state legislative candidates anymore: they can pretty much get away with
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Remember the government's no-deal Brexit plan for lorry traffic? Well, it's now *the plan* in all scenarios 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-04/u-k-to-use-no-deal-brexit-border-plan-fearing-traffic-chaos?sref=yMmXm5
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“We should look at the votes. We’re just beginning the tabulation stage. We should look at these allegations. We’re seeing a number of affidavits that there has been voter fraud.
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Not speaking for anyone else, but Warren releasing her m4a transition plan and funding plan (which were widely and wrongly panned as backtracking by the left) only furthered my resolve
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Honestly the fact that PEACEFUL PROTESTORS protesting against the racism and discrimination against black people in this country are being met with tear gas and rubber bullets but protestors at
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Downing Street says the UK will not ask for a Brexit extension nor accept one if the EU offers due to certainty:"We will not extend the Brexit transition period and
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So, where are we after #UnsealTheArchive? 1) There has been no real legislative improvement of the restrictive process by which people affected by adoption 1922-1998 access their records from Tusla.
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"It's a disaster": Advocates for low-income New Yorkers speak up about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's cuts to Medicaid and other programs. Cuomo also made sure to slip in a provision shanking
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MPs vote that they do not want to have power regarding free trade agreements or: how Westminster Parliaments, once a model, are falling behind. A postscript on the @JDjanogly amendment
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The circus that is Bill 10 and the seriously interesting internal rift within the UCPRecall: Bill 10 (passed this spring) changed the Public Health Act. Allowed a minister to create
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The NA Standing Committee on Law and Justice, headed by MNA @FatyanaRiaz, will discuss the matter of "Post Legislative Scrutiny" of PECA at its meeting today. #AmendPECA We welcome and
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When Kennedy picked Johnson to be his running-mate in 1960, many of JFK’s advisers were aghast. Organized labor universally opposed LBJ and JFK’s advisers said he was too conservative for
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[THREAD] EX OFFICIO EXPRESS: How the House leadership can influence legislative dynamics at the committee level According to Rule IX, Section 30 of the Rules of the House of Representatives,
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That was my first physical attendance at a @ScotPolAuth for some time. I’m afraid the quality of what I saw leaves me despairing; so if you can be bothered, a
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Netanyahu is believed to prefer the option of having yet another new Israeli election [it it happens, it would be 4th in this series that began on 9 April 2019,
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THREAD: Just in case anyone is looking for them, here are the draft K-4 #curriculum documents produced during the NDP process. They were validated through public surveys and public focus
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