GOP accused of dragging out McConnell confirmation
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:51:31 -0700
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats were rebuffed by the GOP Thursday in a bid for consideration of a group of President Obama’s judicial choices, including John J. McConnell Jr., his controversial nominee to the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island.
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Obama Pushes Senate to Confirm Judges
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:09:05 -0700
President Barack Obama called on the Senate Tuesday to vote on long-stalled nominees for the federal judiciary -- an issue that has appeared relatively low among his priorities. He said that some nominees have been waiting as long as eight months to be confirmed and that some legislators "have used parliamentary procedures time and again to deny them a vote in the full Senate." Obama has rarely ...
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Adequacy Of Data Protection Measures
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:13:41 -0700
New Zealand has a first class data protection law in its Privacy Act 1993. In some respects the law is a superior data protection measure to many European laws given its comprehensive application to unstructured manual data.
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