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- NSCLC Recommends Revisions to Executive Order on Federalism
- The Federal Rights Project recommends to the new administration carefully crafted reversal of the prior administration’s acquiescence to business demands for federal preemption of state consumer pro...
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Reinvigorating Federal Safeguards for Individual Rights and Benefits
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- Recommendations for the Department of Justice transition team and the new Solicitor General...
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NSCLC Urges Senators to Enact Fair Pay Bill
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- The National Senior Citizens Law Center submitted this letter to urge swift Senate action on S. 1843, the Fair Pay Restoration Act. The bill would will correct a May 2007 Supreme Court decision that ...
- Congress’ Pre-election Adjournment Strands Consent Decree Bill
- Further action has stalled on the “Consent Decree Fairness Act,” a troubling piece of legislation which NSCLC and a coalition of about 50 organizations have fought for the length of the 109th Cong...
- Testimony by the Hon. Nathaniel R. Jones on Consent Decree Bill
- Testimony by Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, former member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, concerning S. 489, the Consent Decree Fairness Act, before the Senate Committee on the Judi...
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Aging Organizations Oppose Consent Decree Bill
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- The Leadership Council of Aging Organizations opposes the Consent Decree Bill, S. 489. They sent this letter of opposition to the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2005....
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Legal Times Article Opposes Consent Decree Bill
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- An article in Legal Times by Timothy Stoltzfus Jost says the consent decree bill would allow states to abandon commitments....
- Consent Decree Legislation Would Have Far-Reaching Negative Effects
- The “Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act” represents a startling assault upon protections traditionally available to Medicaid beneficiaries under the law....
