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BIO Statement on Removal of Patent Legislation from Judiciary Committee Agenda
2014-05-21 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
BIO issued statement in response to Senator Patrick Leahy's announcement that he will remove current patent legislation from the Senate Judiciary Committee's agenda for now. According to BIO, effective patent litigation reform legislation can and must address the scourge of patent trolls while protecting America's innovators, including small businesses, inventors, universities, and life sciences companies. BIO stands ready to support Chairman Leahy in reaching a more targeted agreement. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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House, Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees Mark up Legislation
2014-05-21 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Yesterday (Tuesday, 20 May), both the US House of Representatives and US Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees marked up legislation for the 2015 fiscal year.
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Ohio Newspapers Silent on ALEC as Group Influences State Senates Anti-Renewable Legislation
2014-05-16 17:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As the Ohio Senate`s members debated about and eventually passed legislation to freeze renewable energy and efficiency standards for two years, some of the state`s most-read newspapers chose American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) affiliates for nearly half of their interviews. Still, none of those publications have mentioned ALEC once since April 7, according to analysis from Media Matters for America (MMFA). That`s a little troubling considering that the legislators behind Senate Bill...
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LA: California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update
2014-05-10 04:16:04| Waste Management - Topix.net
Clean vehicles: S.B. 1204 , Ricardo Lara and Fran Pavley , which passed the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality on a 6-1 vote, was read for the first time in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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10 Pieces of Legislation Likely to Change Commercial Real Estate
2014-05-08 15:59:00| National Real Estate Investor
The 113th Congress has many pieces of legislation before it which, if passed, could impact the commercial real estate industry, mostly in very significant and positive ways. In addition, the impact some legislative changes that were enacted within the past five years, like Dodd-Frank, is only now being felt. Whether or not any of the bills now before Congress will move past being stalled by partisanship and actually be voted upon remains to be seen. At press time, for instance, the Johnson-Crapo overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Shaheen-Portman energy-efficiency bill were both scheduled for votes but caught in a partisan storm. Here are 10 recent and possibly upcoming bills likely to change the U.S. commercial real estate sector. read more
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