Representative Nancy Pelosi (Democrat-CA 18th district) becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of US House of Representatives. She is arguably the most powerful woman in Washington DC; Senator Clinton notwithstanding. It is the beginning of 110th congress, the first time democrats have held the majority in 12 years. However, Speaker Pelosi is no stranger to historical firsts. Speaker Pelosi made history in 2002 when she became the first woman elected House Democratic minority leader. Today is somewhat
The beginning step of the legislative process is the introduction of a bill, a proposed law, or the establishment of a resolution which is a legislative statement of opinion on a specific matter. To introduce these bills, members of the Texas House of Representatives or the Texas Senate may formally present legislation by filing copies in their respective chamber with the secretary of the Senate or the chief clerk of the House of Representative, on the first Monday after the November general elections
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again. All businesses should consider intellectual property and how it may affect them. Background In the United States, copyright law is covered in the Constitution. Cases brought under copyright law are civil. That means no one can go to jail for copyright infringement. According to the US Copyright Office, “Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical
The right to contact the lobby government is for corporations, and business. Corporations communicate with the lobby government through appointments. Contacting the lobby government is a phone call or e-mail. Corporations have the access to communicate with the lobbyists then lobbyists communicate to the member in the house. The corporation is a business which operates people and also the public. Grassroots lobbying supports the public interests in a company. The public involved with lobbying government
Harsh Patel GOVT 2306 Professor Sherry April 10, 2017 Lobbyist and their Spending The process by which interest group members or lobbyists attempt to influence public policy through contacts with public officials. There are different ways to keep those members on their side which are: give them election tickets, big amount of money and many more ways. According to the article they proved that there is a very huge amount of money every party use for convinced their members and spend too much things
Even though the state law requires a disclosure, the lobbyist always find a way to avoid. They are not required to report the name of the legislators until and unless the expenditures go over $114 per day. We can observe from the statistics of the past decade, that the
The symbolic icon of Rosie the Riveter contributed greatly to women joining the workforce in the United States during World War II, later becoming a symbol of female empowerment. Women were no longer considered the typical housewife; she was now the working wife as nearly one-fourth of married women worked outside the home (History). These women who started working during World War II were referred to as “Rosies,” hence, the name Rosie the Riveter (Alchin). Rosie was a symbol representing the women
How has the role of women/men in this industry changed/ Over the last 60 years, the number of women in the workplace has increased exceedingly since they entered the economic system to supplement the males earning capacity. Women in Australia have made a great strive towards achieving equality with men, in universities, in workplace, in boardrooms and in government. An outstanding amount of women has taken on a leadership role, forging pathways for other women and girls to follow. “The average
Many of the allegations that were being made was because many of the audio and video footage that was released proved that they are taking advantage of the funding to Planned Parenthood. With this evidence there’s enough proof to defund Planned Parenthood. On the Susan B. Anthony List website there was also information provided that there was footage released by Lila Rose Live Action showed Planned Parenthood willing to aid and abet in acknowledged human sex trafficking of girls as young as 14 (Susan
art studio one day, so the topic is relevant to me. In this article, some of the key points of the United States copyright law are broken down and summarized for artists and those working with artwork images. Kaplan stresses how when it comes to artwork, it’s all about your rights. Artwork rights are more complicated than one might think. The Visual Artist Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) is a United States law granting certain rights to artists in addition to the ones detailed by copyright law. After doing
world. The staffs of this association works with the governmental agencies and legislature like the State Board of Education and provide genuine assistant and member advocacy. The state comptroller's office collected $6 million in dues from more than 45,000 state employees in the 2016 fiscal year, according to a report by the State Affairs committee (Pruner). More than 50 teachers and other state workers also spoke in the Capitol last month against Sen. Joan Huffman's Senate Bill 13.(Pruner). Similarly
1 Introduction Australia’s copyright laws defy what you can and can’t do with other people’s creative work. These laws are enforced under the Australian Copyright Act of 1968 which apply to all of Australia. If these laws are broken it is deemed that the offender has breached the law and can be infringed due to the matter. Copyrights have no cost and are implemented to any creative work without the need for the creator to apply for the work to be copyrighted. The copyright lasts for 70 years after
Research is a very important step in passing a bill in congress because the information that you receive from it can help you have a better understanding of your topic. One of the most important factors when researching your issue is checking if someone else had already passed a bill similar to yours. If that bill was tabled or failed you should add compromises to fix the issues that were found last time. Another important step of researching is to check for which party is most likely to agree to
expertise, and resources to combat human trafficking. In order to accomplish this, coalitions were formed between governmental and non-governmental agencies. Since this issue spans across jurisdictions, collaborating agencies were on the federal, state, and local levels of government. The Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force is governed by a steering committee, which provides direction, guidance, and strategy for carrying out policies. As the decision making body, one member from the partnering
The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first law pertaining to protecting the rights of a creator on record in the United States. It stated that the creator or creators of a book, map, chart, or any printed material had the sole rights to print and distribute the work for 14 years and if they were still alive when the initial term was to expire, barring they were still living
One of the most important legal issue is copyright. Copyright is a law that exist in any original work or intellectual property made by creators such as writers, musicians and programmers. Copyright protects the original work of the authors from being reproduced (or copied) without the permission of the author.It is not just the design (aesthetics) of the website that has to check for copyright but also how the program is coded.This give the creator more control over their original work. This allows
This paper examines and summarizes the court Federal case 33921 Entertainment Software Association V. Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada. A court does not create the laws, however the court interprets the cases and rules and then these elucidations are used to reach a final decision. The commencement of this case was between ESA and SOCAN and the interpretation of whether communicating through the internet to the public gives copyright owners the same right that they
Ender’s Game Heroism Essay Is it okay to commit genocide and come out guiltless? Well, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, follows the journey of a young boy, Ender, who has the fate of humanity on his shoulders. This book is set in a future era; there are spaceships, colonization of planets, and battles with the infamous buggers. The buggers were considered a threat to the humans and their colonization. As a result, when Ender had been the commander of the troops that wiped them out, humans rejoiced
agency in the United States designed to attack illegal drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administration was established in 1973 by President Nixon through an Executive Order. The government sought to end interagency issues between Customs and the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) (DEA Editors, 2015). The DEA is under the purview of the Department of Justice. The Drug Enforcement Administration investigates criminals and drug gangs who distribute paraphilia in the United States (Sacco, 2014)