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...scholarship, created in 2000 with a $210 million grant from Bill and Melinda Gates, provides full funding for non-British students to pursue graduate study at the University of Cambridge...
...with slumping tax revenues, have sent Social Security into the red several years earlier than expected. The current economic outlook puts the program’s solvency in jeopardy. So what does Congress do to save us from this impending disaster? The solution is obvious—pass a non-binding resolution...
This is not a false scenario: on Feb. 5, 2010, the non-binding House Resolution 1077 was introduced, declaring Congress’s intention to “stand with the American people to reject severe changes to social security, including any and all attempts to privatize [it],” instead promising to “make common-sense adjustments… to strengthen it for future generations.” As well-intentioned as this sounds, it’s nothing more than a way to bait Republicans into publicly picking sides on Rep. Paul Ryan?...
...non-binding resolution is any bill that, by definition, cannot progress into law. These toothless acts have come to plague Congress. For example, a typical workday in Congress (Feb. 2, 2010, specifically) saw the consideration of such gems as H. Res. 957, which honored NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson for his “historic achievements” in winning the Sprint Cup, a resolution “recognizing the goals of Catholic Schools Week,” one declaring January 2010 (which ended two days earlier) to be “National Stalking Awareness Month...
...fishing communities. India's health ministry is currently reworking legislation on human clinical trials to introduce more stringent punishment for offences. That follows concerns that Indian research firms were cutting corners and risking subjects' health and lives in their hurry to attract international drug firms. And lobby groups and non-governmental organizations have been pressing the government to introduce new rules on electronic waste, ever larger quantities of which is making its way to India for recycling, or worse, dumping in landfills...