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7 Apr 2011, 12:44 pm
The government is also planning to amend the Representation of People Act which would definitely prove useful. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 12:44 pm
The government is also planning to amend the Representation of People Act which would definitely prove useful. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 5:27 am
Many of the laws disenfranchising former criminals date back to the post-Civil War era and were used to prevent freed slaves from voting. [read post]
18 May 2011, 12:45 pm
Stevens and say, assist us in committing a crime or fraud. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 8:36 am
In the end, as the casebook that I use puts it, Congress declared a "ceasefire in place" and simply gave in.And this dynamic is easy to see in other situations, though often there are identifiable turning points. [read post]
26 May 2015, 10:27 pm
to use some other basis like CVAP. [read post]
6 Nov 2022, 12:03 pm
But the conceptual cage, and its performances, are not unique to the US. [read post]
15 Jul 2021, 9:35 am
For example, article I, section 7, specifies that it takes a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress to override a presidential veto. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 11:29 am
For example, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Sen. [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 6:41 am
’ Until Lyndon Johnson got an office on the White House grounds in the Executive Office Building, the only official office for use by the Vice President was in the Capitol building, and it was not until Walter Mondale that the Vice President had an office in the West Wing of the White House. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 1:45 pm
The collective Congress, for all of the acknowledged problems associated with partisan gerrymandering in the House and the over-representation of small states in the Senate, is far more democratic than a single president who, recurrently, does not get even a majority of the national vote (which George W. [read post]
13 Mar 2015, 6:34 am
Meehan added that the White House expected the Security Council to endorse any deal with Iran. [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 9:56 am
[Just testified this morning before the House Ways & Means Committee Oversight Subcommittee about this.] [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
To be sure, some of them, such as equal voting power in the Senate or the basis of representation in the House (i.e., the 3/5 rule), were the result of compromises, in which the losers (like James Madison with regard to the Senate) viewed the result as a “lesser evil” (to the greater evil of no Constitution at all) rather than a positive good. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 8:07 am
Congress. [read post]
31 May 2011, 1:00 pm
Treaty was read the first time, and together with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TRANSMITTING EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC OF PERU, SIGNED AT LIMA ON JULY 26, 2001 107TH CONGRESS 2d Session SENATE LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL THE WHITE HOUSE, May 8, 2002. [read post]
27 Jan 2022, 9:34 am
As my former co-worker Terri Burns so eloquently put in the BLCK.VC event in 2020, systems in the US aren’t broken, they are working as intended. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 11:21 am
On Nov. 12, Bannon was indicted on two counts of contempt of Congress, one for failing to produce documents and the other for failing to provide testimony. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 7:22 am
House of Representatives must be increased beyond its present 435 seats, in order to bring about more equality among the states in their representation. [read post]
7 Dec 2022, 8:32 am
Yes, third parties are impossibly disadvantaged in the US, but what about the Republicans' so-called autopsy after losing the 2012 elections so decisively? [read post]
