The Patent Reform Act of 2011 was unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee without the testimony of a single inventor. If voted into law, it will hurt American innovation.Datasheets Com
“It was a nightmare straight out of George Orwell,” said the 43-year-old San Francisco artist, whose portraits of nude families appear in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. “It was...
The bill was passed by the Senate by 195 votes to 112, after 10 days of maneuvers to reduce debating time as much as possible. It then went through a joint commission which had to rewrite the text so that it could again be brought to the National Assembly on March 16. But once again...
was defeated by Donald Trump, who had no experience in government. I hoped Trump’s election was a fluke, and, after all, Hillary, the qualified candidate, had won the popular vote. Still, “I can’t stand Hilary” was often stated as the reason...
is a transparent example.[1] The term has also been used to refer to organizations not originally communist-controlled which after a time became so, such as the American Student Union. During the cold war the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and the Senate Internal Security Su...
ThePresidential Succession Act of 1947set theline of succession, which establishes who's next in line for the presidency if the office is vacated. Here are the first six in line: Vice President (Kamala Harris), Speaker of the House (Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana), Senate pro tempore (Sen...
"I have often been forced to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that there was no place else to go.”
Now 28, the young man who once thought he’d never see the outside of a prison works as an assistant for the state Senate Public Safety Committee, an influential panel of lawmakers who review legislation related to the criminal justice system. ...
I'd be willing to bet that most Americans have no clue what the Johnson-Reed Act was. Passed in 1924, and in 1929 setting an annual immigration quota of 150,000, the act was a continuation of restrictive immigration laws that were enacted before 1900. As
On the Hill The Senate is in. The House is out. 3 things to watch … The Senate is suddenly on track to pass major tech legislation— finishing probably just before leaving for its summer recess next week — after an initia...