#Legislation

Thread 8 reasons why MPs should support the main food and farming trade standards amendment 16B in the #AgricultureBill when it returns to the House of Commons #SaveOurStandards 1/12
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#OnThisDay 1898 Melvin B. Tolson, author of Rendevous with America and Libretto for the Republic of Liberia, was born. He was also the famed coach of the Wiley College Forensic
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Today our university sent out an email with info. for parents of school-aged children. It links to the HR website, which is difficult to follow, but it's the same leave
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I was a wide eyed, wet behind the ears, gun control Democrat who didn’t have a single gun in my house. A criminal decided to invade my home and shoot
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every time you get suckered in with "this makes the queers more palatable because we're going to behave normally" sex workers are the first to take the resulting blow from
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Who else pumped for the USPS Senate hearing tomorrow at 9am EST? "Examining the Finances and Operations of the United States Postal Service During COVID-19 and Upcoming Elections" Here we
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After many months, the UN General Assembly is meeting to adopt a resolution on COVID-19. I hear it will be voted on.http://webtv.un.org/  Jason Mack, the U.S. diplomat representing the U.S.
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So, with the vote of the Electoral College today, its time to think about what's next.yes, we're all pissed off that there are clear 'irregularities' in what took place in
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NHS reform has been in the headlines over the weekend – with a focus on proposals to give ministers more direct control of the NHS. Over recent months we’ve been
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The full text of the Dail statements on combatting racism from this morning has now been publishedhttps://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-17/2/ Some highlights for me... The thread that follows is not a comment on
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THREAD:“In the United States, there is one state, and only one state, where every single resident and business receives electricity from a community-owned institution rather than a for-profit corporation.”1/ “It
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A thread on Marc MacSharry after his comments yesterday that public servants “lie on the couch and watch box sets” and “many elements of our State agencies, Government departments and
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1- The French Law Strengthening Republican principles that was adopted by the National Assembly is a very regressive piece of legislation that dangerously curtails civil liberties and human rights and
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The Federal Reserve's authority to establish emergency-lending programs has emerged as a late sticking point in negotiations on the latest Covid relief packagehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-aid-talks-go-down-to-the-wire-11608306476
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THREADWhen I was a staffer for Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick, I organized and ran her campaign to get on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. It's politics at its basic, bare-knuckle essence.
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THREAD tomorrow, NH House Judiciary committee is going to hear a really dangerous bill. It’s pretty confusing, so I’m going to explain what HB 233 (relative to the right of
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