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The full implementation is going to take months and years, there is a lot of unimplemented or to be implemented provisions in there. Let’s talk about that first. – Thom Tillis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The unfortunate reality is that there are more than a dozen states right now where abortion is illegal or close to fully illegal, it is banned. And unfortunately, just like people are forced to do now, it is likely that some people in states where abortion is banned may choose to travel to another state to seek medication abortion, we don’t believe that anyone should be forced to travel in that way, and certainly, as this moves forward, there are a lot of very smart lawyers who are looking at the question of how they’ll be incorporated into drugstores and pharmacy chains, and where that can happen – and how these different federal and state provisions interplay. – Andrea Miller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Constitution is clear, states have the primary role in federal elections, with Congress — us — playing a secondary role. Yet some of the provisions in their proposal would trample on state sovereignty and grant Congress unprecedented authority to interpret state laws. – Rodney Davis	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The bankruptcy was a protection to prevent land loss. I would like to see some kind of provisions for Black farmers who have had to file bankruptcy and are dealing with sharks in collections. – Deydra Steans	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Justice Department continues to operate as if everyone is asking for full disclosure, they can redact portions of the affidavit. They can allow the court to review the redaction and make judgments as to how sensitive the provisions might be. But they oppose it wholesale to the detriment of the American public. – Jonathan Turley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In the 99-year history of the compact, we have complied with those provisions of the compact, they are getting what they agreed to. – Kevin Rein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The bill fails substantively in many areas, including its failure to provide any meaningful enforcement provisions. This bill goes through the motions on paper, but lacks any teeth to actually reduce abortions in Indiana by holding those who perform abortions or would intentionally skirt the law accountable with criminal consequences. – Indiana Right to Life	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's all about what can get 60-plus votes in the Senate GOP, and we're working on Senate GOP and Senate GOP will have to do with the spending as well as the provisions. – Chris Murphy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The critiques he levels at Roe -- Supreme Court's not in the constitutional text ; there aren't early state constitutional provisions or early state or federal court decisions recognizing the right -- apply to those other rights, and he'd happily overrule them if he could. – Samuel Alito	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is yet another example of the illegal, cynical and barbaric acts perpetrated by the Russian armed forces in the context of their reckless and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, we call on the Russian military authorities to Ivan Fedorov immediately and to ensure that Ivan Fedorov health and safety is preserved. We urge the Russian authorities to fully respect the Geneva Conventions on combatants and non-combatant civilians and prisoners of war, as well as all relevant provisions of International Humanitarian Law. – Ukrainian Parliament	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'll be very straight with you if this isn't handled. You're going to have kids with starvation because over the course of the years we've been supplementing the food and other provisions. – Mark Davis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are multiple definitions of originalism, and multiple theories of it, speaking just for myself, I would say it’s the idea that provisions of the Constitution should be interpreted in accordance with the original meaning of the text at the time it was ratified (e.g. – 1868 for the 14th Amendment). – Ilya Somin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
[It] would mandate that states allow vote trafficking: In other words, states would have to allow paid political operatives and candidates and campaign staffers to be able to go to voters homes to pick up and handle their absentee ballots, which of course, puts them in a good position to alter or change those ballots, and maybe not deliver them – and to coerce and pressure those voters, there are so many provisions in here it's hard to list them all because the bills are so big. – Von Spakovsky	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Enforcement of the rule's provisions is desperately needed, as coal plants have demonstrated they don't care about polluting water or putting people's health at risk, and they have taken full advantage of the Trump EPA's hands-off policy, the result is nationwide pollution of water at coal plants. – Lisa Evans	Found on CNN 2 years ago
These new measures include provisions that make it harder for people to register to vote, curtail mail-in voting and early voting, and make it easier for state officials to simply delete your voter registration. – White House	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have a prominent seat at the table. I think a few years ago, our issues were not at the center of the discussion. Now they are, expanding Medicare to include dental, vision, hearing aid – that's something that had broad support in the caucus. Expanding having universal preschool – broad support. Having child care – broad support. Bold climate provisions – broad support. Ending forever wars – broad support. – Ro Khanna	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While we share the sentiments of the bill, in order to preserve the Secretary’s flexibility to manage the Department, revisions would be appropriate to make mandates and prescriptive provisions into permissive authorities, such that the Secretary would be authorized to set up the office and envoy. – State Department	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This legislation does not have the problematic provisions that were included in last year’s House Bill 1217, those flawed provisions would have led to endless litigation for our state, as well as for the families of young South Dakota athletes -- male and female alike. – Kristi Noem	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Affordable Care Act was The Affordable Care Act because many of The Affordable Care Act main provisions would not be enacted or felt for years, in the case of the infrastructure bill, there should be visible projects underway relatively swiftly -- physical evidence of progress. The task is to link those community improvements to this bill and The President in the minds of voters. – David Axelrod	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Provisions in the bill have passed the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support five times, most recently 98-0 in 2006.Let there be a debate and let there be a vote. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As the Republican Leader in the House of Representatives, I am opposed to any mass amnesty provisions as part of the reconciliation bill currently being debated among members of your party, by passing amnesty and other federal benefits for illegal immigrants into law, you will be incentivizing even larger numbers of illegal migration. This policy would make the border crisis even worse. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Senate Democratshave worked hardto ensure this bill includes traditionally bipartisan provisions, butSenate Republicans are likely to block even debate on the bill, as they have before on previousvoting rights bills. It’s unconscionable. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For those who want climate provisions, they will have to sit there and explain higher gas prices, and in politics, when you're explaining, you're losing. – Ed Mills	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against, and I am satisfied that my countrymen, ever mindful of the suffering and sacrifices necessary to obtain it, will never consent to its impairment for any reason or under any pretext whatsoever. – Thomas F. Bayard	added by Normando 2 years ago

The full implementation is going to take months and years, there is a lot of unimplemented or to be implemented provisions in there. Let’s talk about that first.

– Thom Tillis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The unfortunate reality is that there are more than a dozen states right now where abortion is illegal or close to fully illegal, it is banned. And unfortunately, just like people are forced to do now, it is likely that some people in states where abortion is banned may choose to travel to another state to seek medication abortion, we don’t believe that anyone should be forced to travel in that way, and certainly, as this moves forward, there are a lot of very smart lawyers who are looking at the question of how they’ll be incorporated into drugstores and pharmacy chains, and where that can happen – and how these different federal and state provisions interplay.

– Andrea Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Constitution is clear, states have the primary role in federal elections, with Congress — us — playing a secondary role. Yet some of the provisions in their proposal would trample on state sovereignty and grant Congress unprecedented authority to interpret state laws.

– Rodney Davis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The bankruptcy was a protection to prevent land loss. I would like to see some kind of provisions for Black farmers who have had to file bankruptcy and are dealing with sharks in collections.

– Deydra Steans

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Justice Department continues to operate as if everyone is asking for full disclosure, they can redact portions of the affidavit. They can allow the court to review the redaction and make judgments as to how sensitive the provisions might be. But they oppose it wholesale to the detriment of the American public.

– Jonathan Turley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In the 99-year history of the compact, we have complied with those provisions of the compact, they are getting what they agreed to.

– Kevin Rein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bill fails substantively in many areas, including its failure to provide any meaningful enforcement provisions. This bill goes through the motions on paper, but lacks any teeth to actually reduce abortions in Indiana by holding those who perform abortions or would intentionally skirt the law accountable with criminal consequences.

– Indiana Right to Life

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's all about what can get 60-plus votes in the Senate GOP, and we're working on Senate GOP and Senate GOP will have to do with the spending as well as the provisions.

– Chris Murphy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The critiques he levels at Roe -- Supreme Court's not in the constitutional text ; there aren't early state constitutional provisions or early state or federal court decisions recognizing the right -- apply to those other rights, and he'd happily overrule them if he could.

– Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is yet another example of the illegal, cynical and barbaric acts perpetrated by the Russian armed forces in the context of their reckless and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, we call on the Russian military authorities to Ivan Fedorov immediately and to ensure that Ivan Fedorov health and safety is preserved. We urge the Russian authorities to fully respect the Geneva Conventions on combatants and non-combatant civilians and prisoners of war, as well as all relevant provisions of International Humanitarian Law.

– Ukrainian Parliament

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'll be very straight with you if this isn't handled. You're going to have kids with starvation because over the course of the years we've been supplementing the food and other provisions.

– Mark Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are multiple definitions of originalism, and multiple theories of it, speaking just for myself, I would say it’s the idea that provisions of the Constitution should be interpreted in accordance with the original meaning of the text at the time it was ratified (e.g. – 1868 for the 14th Amendment).

– Ilya Somin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[It] would mandate that states allow vote trafficking: In other words, states would have to allow paid political operatives and candidates and campaign staffers to be able to go to voters homes to pick up and handle their absentee ballots, which of course, puts them in a good position to alter or change those ballots, and maybe not deliver them – and to coerce and pressure those voters, there are so many provisions in here it's hard to list them all because the bills are so big.

– Von Spakovsky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Enforcement of the rule's provisions is desperately needed, as coal plants have demonstrated they don't care about polluting water or putting people's health at risk, and they have taken full advantage of the Trump EPA's hands-off policy, the result is nationwide pollution of water at coal plants.

– Lisa Evans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These new measures include provisions that make it harder for people to register to vote, curtail mail-in voting and early voting, and make it easier for state officials to simply delete your voter registration.

– White House

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have a prominent seat at the table. I think a few years ago, our issues were not at the center of the discussion. Now they are, expanding Medicare to include dental, vision, hearing aid – that's something that had broad support in the caucus. Expanding having universal preschool – broad support. Having child care – broad support. Bold climate provisions – broad support. Ending forever wars – broad support.

– Ro Khanna

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While we share the sentiments of the bill, in order to preserve the Secretary’s flexibility to manage the Department, revisions would be appropriate to make mandates and prescriptive provisions into permissive authorities, such that the Secretary would be authorized to set up the office and envoy.

– State Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This legislation does not have the problematic provisions that were included in last year’s House Bill 1217, those flawed provisions would have led to endless litigation for our state, as well as for the families of young South Dakota athletes -- male and female alike.

– Kristi Noem

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Affordable Care Act was The Affordable Care Act because many of The Affordable Care Act main provisions would not be enacted or felt for years, in the case of the infrastructure bill, there should be visible projects underway relatively swiftly -- physical evidence of progress. The task is to link those community improvements to this bill and The President in the minds of voters.

– David Axelrod

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Provisions in the bill have passed the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support five times, most recently 98-0 in 2006.Let there be a debate and let there be a vote.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the Republican Leader in the House of Representatives, I am opposed to any mass amnesty provisions as part of the reconciliation bill currently being debated among members of your party, by passing amnesty and other federal benefits for illegal immigrants into law, you will be incentivizing even larger numbers of illegal migration. This policy would make the border crisis even worse.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Senate Democratshave worked hardto ensure this bill includes traditionally bipartisan provisions, butSenate Republicans are likely to block even debate on the bill, as they have before on previousvoting rights bills. It’s unconscionable.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For those who want climate provisions, they will have to sit there and explain higher gas prices, and in politics, when you're explaining, you're losing.

– Ed Mills

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against, and I am satisfied that my countrymen, ever mindful of the suffering and sacrifices necessary to obtain it, will never consent to its impairment for any reason or under any pretext whatsoever.

– Thomas F. Bayard

added by Normando
2 years ago

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