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9 Mar 2018, 11:02 am
They ease the process of bringing a joint resolution (or bill) to the floor, which can lessen the influence of committee members who might oppose it. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 10:13 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi, has written a report on the recent Supreme Court of India case, Reserve Bank of India v. [read post]
8 Sep 2015, 12:00 pm
But the AP tells us that the Obama administration has succeeded in whipping not just the 34 Senators needed to block a veto override of a disapproval measure, but the full 41 required to prevent the measure from even reaching the Senate floor—if all those who have now stated their support for the deal vote in favor of it when the time comes. 11 Afghan policemen were killed in a U.S. airstrike in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the Afghan Ministry of the Interior has declared. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 1:57 pm
James Burnham takes the floor for the government and thanks Srinivasan for bifurcating the session. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 9:44 am
In exchange for Skripal and two other convicted spies, the United States released ten Russian sleeper agents, whose saga would go on to inspire the TV show, “The Americans. [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 10:19 am
If a person makes a complaint about unsafe drugs or harmful GM crops released into the market and concerned public servants have done nothing to stop it, then he or she has to show that the information has been obtained under the RTI Act. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 5:03 am
Huawei carefully details floor statements from members of Congress in which they suggested that Huawei deserved the “death penalty” and was “nothing more than [an] extension[] of the Chinese Communist Party” and a “bad apple[]. [read post]
10 Jul 2015, 12:58 pm
This note also takes into account statistics regarding award of death sentences available for the period 2000-1998 in the annual compilations of prison statistics of NCRB as disclosed on its website.4 The main purpose of the note is to show the trends regarding award of death sentences during the 16 year period between 1998-2013. [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 9:09 am
The nomination-by-tweet of Republican Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas as Director of National Intelligence to replace outgoing DNI Dan Coats has drawn rapid and harsh condemnation from many political observers and even former intelligence officers for his apparent partisanship and lack of experience. [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 7:56 am
” Importantly, the opinion was designed to establish the constitutional floor for officer adherence to the Fourth Amendment, not to deprive communities of the opportunity to impose a more restrictive code of conduct on their officers. [read post]
17 Nov 2019, 2:44 pm
Even a broom can be used to sweep the floor or hit someone over the head. [read post]
25 Jul 2022, 5:01 am
Open source is free software built collaboratively by a community of developers, often volunteers, for public use. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 3:42 am
We withdrew from the disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal, a horror show. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 10:59 am
“Let’s not have any lectures, no lectures, about how the president should immediately, cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election and who insinuated that this one would be illegitimate too if they lost again—only if they lost,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor. [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 8:47 am
The Senate’s recent decision not to convict President Trump in the impeachment trial over his role in precipitating the U.S. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 12:53 pm
For example, a cancer classifier can “learn” that an image shows a tumor if that image contains a ruler. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 5:35 am
The defendant was sleeping on the second floor when the police arrived. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 8:16 am
Some estimates show that Rothman spoke 35% of the sessions’ time (more than all opposition members combined). [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 6:58 am
Example--what happened to Roseanne Barr; said it on social media and lost her show. [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 5:00 am
Note to readers: Given how frequently I've written this year about my relocation to Canada (a move that even made me a very minor one-day New York Times celebrity), it only makes sense in choosing a Classic column to reach back to when I began writing essays that were rather poorly disguised messages regarding my intention to bug out of the US. [read post]
