legislation
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Abbott signed legislation more than a decade ago giving data centers tax breaks to attract more technology investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Newsom is working behind closed doors on legislation to further protect Edison and the state’s two other big for-profit electric utilities from the cost of wildfires caused by their equipment, the Times reported this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
"We have seven months left of this mandate, we have important decisions that need made and important legislation coming before us," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
We also have even more moderate Democrats, like Abigail Spanberger, who’s passing good legislation.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
On the committee’s agenda were two proposed pieces of legislation restricting wireless phone use by drivers.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Ms Khalaf said the sentence handed to Tiba's father was "unfair", and that she saw such cases as evidence of "provisions and legislations that violate women's rights".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
“So, it’s a fight to control the data, and they’ve been very active in fighting those legislations everywhere they can.”
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2022
Rep. Pramila Jayapal still has the confidence of the various factions of her party, as well as the White House, to negotiate some passable legislations.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
I think it discredits those who pass these legislations, those who adopt them and those who implement them more than anything else.
From US News ● Dec. 21, 2015
It is Schleiermacher's determinism which leads him, in view of the parallelism of the two legislations, to overlook their essential distinction.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
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