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The "Stand By Your Ad" provision (SBYA) of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA, also known as the McCain–Feingold Act), enacted in 2002, requires candidates in the United States for federal political office, as well as interest groups and political parties supporting or opposing a candidate, to include in political advertisements on television and radio "a statement by the candidate ...
It's actually the law. It was part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. It requires candidates for federal office to identify themselves and state that they approve of the message in ...
Unanimous consent. In parliamentary procedure, unanimous consent, also known as general consent, or in the case of the parliaments under the Westminster system, leave of the house (or leave of the senate ), is a situation in which no member present objects to a proposal.
The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments. Six amendments adopted by Congress and sent to the states have not been ratified by the required number of states.
Rhode Island’s existing laws were used to remove 11,598 cases from the public record in 2014 alone, the last year for which The Journal has numbers readily available. The five-year count at that ...
A former technology executive has pleaded guilty to a single count of fraud involving a scheme to artificially inflate the share price of photo and video distributor , federal officials said Friday.
60–69%. 50–59%. 49% (plurality support) Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States has significantly changed since the 1990s, [2] and an overwhelming majority of Americans now favor same-sex marriage. [3] Approval of same-sex marriage is higher in younger generations; [4] among 18–34 year olds, support is near-universal. [5]
California lawmakers on Monday abandoned their attempt to repeal the nation's only law requiring voter approval for publicly funded affordable housing projects, a provision added to the state ...