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How to use the word codify in a Sentence?

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We can assume more methods like the Utah bill could find their way into other states’ plans, especially if actions are not taken at the federal level, eventually, if enough states implement similar or related legislation, we could see a more concerted effort at the federal level to codify these (likely) disparate state laws under a US-wide policy.

– Michael Inouye

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to codify Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I ’m asking you, send me to Washington, let me be the vote to codify your right to privacy, your ability to make decisions over your body.

– Democrat Charles Booker

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we do that, here’s the promise I make to you and the American people: The first bill I will send to the Congress will be to codify Roe v. Wade.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While this ruling keeps the existing DACA program in place, it continues to deny other eligible recipients the possibility to receive protection, for these reasons, Drew Angerer/Getty Images is time for Republicans to join Democrats in supporting legislation that will codify these life-saving protections and ensure Dreamers have the opportunity to finally receive the citizenship they’ve worked hard to earn.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We either elect federal senators and representatives who will codify Roe or Republicans who will elect a House and Senate that will try to ban abortions nationwide.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In his disturbing concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas confirmed many of our deepest fears about where this decision may lead: taking aim at additional long-standing precedent and cherished privacy rights, from access to contraception and in-vitro fertilization to marriage equality, legislation is being introduced to further codify freedoms which Americans currently enjoy.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ultimately, Congress is going to have to act to codify Roe into federal law.

– Scott Applewhite -RRB- Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The foremost thing we should do is make it clear how outrageous this decision was, i believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure that Congress votes to do that.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This ruling puts women's health in jeopardy, denies them their human rights, and threatens to dismantle the progress we've made toward gender equality in the workplaces since Roe, business leaders must step up to support the health and safety of their employees by speaking out against the wave of abortion bans that will be triggered as a result of this decision, and call on Congress to codify Roe into law.

– Jeremy Stoppelman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Obviously, there are some actions that will be through legal processes and through the courts. Those are decisions for the Department of Justice and others to make, but certainly the president supports and believes we should codify Roe v. Wade, and that is his view. Regardless of these backward-looking steps that are being taken in states.

– Dyana Limon-Mercado

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Investors - and the asset managers who serve them - deserve a more uniform ETF regulatory framework. The time is right to codify these exemptive orders into a single rule.

– Investment Company Institute

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Disturbingly, the legislation serves to codify a dangerous policy that deliberately obstructs our country’s immigration laws and shelters serious criminal alien offenders.

– Thomas Homan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

By passing this bill, California politicians have chosen to prioritize politics over public safety, disturbingly, the legislation serves to codify a dangerous policy that deliberately obstructs our country’s immigration laws and shelters serious criminal alien offenders.

– Thomas Homan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The EPA is in a real bind, congress wrote a law mandating imaginary fuels. These have failed to materialize in any quantity. Congress tried to codify wishful thinking.

– John DeCicco

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Marketers basically decide what is 'girl' and what is 'boy,' which ultimately leads to two very distinct ways to profit as well as a blind acceptance from the consumer who, often, doesn't realize it's happening, girls are inundated from a very young age with inappropriate messaging by way of products like 'skinny' jeans for toddlers, or T-shirts that say, 'I'm too pretty to do homework, so my brother does it for me,' and sexy Halloween costumes. Kids begin to codify other kids by placing them in strict categories that they've been taught -- not born with. Inevitably, kids begin to believe that girls need to be sexy, and boys believe it, too.

– Michele Yulo

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I hope we can define and codify political crimes during this government, with the cooperation of the judiciary, and put forward and approve a bill so it is clear what is a political or security crime.

– President Hassan Rouhani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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