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Question· Mündliche Frage17/11282open

Geplante Änderung des Art. 91b Grundgesetz und Kooperation der Berliner Charité mit dem Max-Delbrück-Centrum

Germany · German Bundestag · 2 November 2012

Originaltext der Frage(n):<br /> <br /> Ist nach Auffassung der Bundesregierung für die geplante Kooperation zwischen Charité &ndash; Universitätsmedizin Berlin und MAX-DELBRÜCK-CENTRUM FÜR MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN (MDC) Berlin-Buch eine Änderung des Grundgesetzes (GG) erforderlich, und falls nein, für welche Art von Vorhaben ist die von der Bundesregierung vorgeschlagene Änderung des Artikels 91b GG vorgesehen?

Question· writtenPQ 493asked

493. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to the 29th Amendment to the Constitution, if he will set out in tabular form showing each of the courts in the judicial hierarchy, the number of judges attached to each court. [45985/12]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 October 2012

493. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to the 29th Amendment to the Constitution, if he will set out in tabular form showing each of the courts in the judicial hierarchy, the number of judges attached to each court. [45985/12]

Question· writtenPQ 464asked

464. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider the holding of a referendum to amend the Constitution to address any impediments that might exist in relation to upward only rent reviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45711/12]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 October 2012

464. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider the holding of a referendum to amend the Constitution to address any impediments that might exist in relation to upward only rent reviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45711/12]

Question· writtenPQ 281asked

281. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the quantum of total salary payments to judges in each court in 2011; the annual savings achieved in each court following the 29th Amendment to the Constitution and the forecast total salary payments to judges in each court 2012. [45985/12]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 October 2012

281. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the quantum of total salary payments to judges in each court in 2011; the annual savings achieved in each court following the 29th Amendment to the Constitution and the forecast total salary payments to judges in each court 2012. [45985/12]

Question· writtenPQ 177asked

177. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance in the context of the principle of equality before the law as a corner-stone of the constitution, if he will explain the way it is compatible with that Constitutional provision that mismanaged and insolvently operating banks were and are treated preferentially over and above other financially distressed private companies, businesses and persons; and the factors that make a private commercial bank different in nature to other private companies for the purposes of securing a bail-out courtesy of taxpayers. [46254/12]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 October 2012

177. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance in the context of the principle of equality before the law as a corner-stone of the constitution, if he will explain the way it is compatible with that Constitutional provision that mismanaged and insolvently operating banks were and are treated preferentially over and above other financially distressed private companies, businesses and persons; and the factors that make a private commercial bank different in nature to other private companies for the purposes of securing a bail-out courtesy of taxpayers. [46254/12]

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 121 (112th)referred

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to increase by 29 votes the number of electoral votes awarded to the candidate for President who receives the largest percentage of the popular vote.

United States · United States Congress · 23 October 2012

Constitutional Amendment - Increases by 29 electoral votes the number of electoral votes awarded to the candidate for President who receives the largest percentage of the total popular vote. Declares that these votes shall not be considered votes cast by Electors and shall not affect the total number of votes necessary to constitute a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed.

Question· Schriftliche Frage17/11095open

Bundesgesetze zur Übertragung von Aufgaben an Gemeinden gemäß Artikel 84 Absatz 1 Grundgesetz nach Inkrafttreten der sogenannten Föderalismusreform I

Germany · German Bundestag · 19 October 2012

Originaltext der Frage(n):<br /> <br /> Durch welche Bundesgesetze werden auch nach dem Inkrafttreten der Föderalismusreform I und dem daraus resultierenden Verbot der Übertragung von Aufgaben an Gemeinden und Gemeindeverbände durch Bundesgesetze gemäß Artikel 84 Absatz 1 des Grundgesetzes Aufgaben an diese übertragen?

Bill· Regierungsvorlage: Bundes(verfassungs)gesetz1962 d.B.regierungsvorlage: bundes(verfassungs)gesetz

Energielenkungsgesetz 2012

Austria · National Council · 16 October 2012

Bundesgesetz über Lenkungsmaßnahmen zur Sicherung der Energieversorgung (Energielenkungsgesetz 2012 – EnLG 2012)

Resolution· Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag883/UEAunselbständiger entschließungsantrag

Einsetzung von parlamentarischen Untersuchungsausschüssen als Minderheitsrecht

Austria · National Council · 15 October 2012

Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Martina Schenk, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Einbringung einer Regierungsvorlage zur Novellierung des Art. 53 B-VG hinsichtlich Einsetzung von parlamentarischen Untersuchungsausschüssen als Minderheitsrecht

Bill· Regierungsvorlage: Bundes(verfassungs)gesetz1937 d.B.regierungsvorlage: bundes(verfassungs)gesetz

Sicherheitskontrollgesetz 2013

Austria · National Council · 9 October 2012

Bundesgesetz über die Einrichtung eines Sicherheitskontrollsystems, die Sicherung von Kernmaterial und Anlagen und über die Ausfuhrkontrolle zur Gewährleistung der friedlichen Verwendung der Atomenergie (Sicherheitskontrollgesetz 2013 – SKG 2013)

Bill· Selbständiger Antrag2084/Aselbständiger antrag

Einrichtung der Schulbehörden des Bundes, Änderung

Austria · National Council · 5 October 2012

Antrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Walter Rosenkranz, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesverfassungsgesetz, mit dem das Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz, BGBl. Nr. 1/1930 geändert wird <i>(Einrichtung der Schulbehörden des Bundes)</i>

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 799 (112th)referred

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that it is not a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a State to extend particular consideration to members of the uniformed services and overseas citizens to ensure that such individuals are able to exercise their rights to vote in elections for public office.

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2012

Affirms that it is U.S. policy to provide for the ability of members of the uniformed services to exercise their constitutional right to vote and acknowledges that particular consideration be given to them due to restrictions, uncertainties, and risks, such as deployment, that present a challenge in voting. Recognizes the legislative and judicial precedent of granting particular consideration to members of the uniformed services and overseas citizens regarding absentee voting. Affirms that while the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects against arbitrary classifications, and requires that similarly situated persons be treated equally, members of the uniformed services and overseas citizens are not similarly situated, and that the restrictions, uncertainties, and risks that members of the uniformed services face warrant consideration that is not arbitrary.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 794 (112th)referred

Requiring the House of Representatives to take any legislative action necessary to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution when the legislatures of an additional three States ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2012

Requires the House of Representatives, when the legislatures of an additional three states ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (prohibits discrimination on account of sex) to the Constitution, to take any legislative action necessary to verify the ratification of such Amendment.

Bill· Selbständiger Antrag2068/Aselbständiger antrag

Angelobungsformel des Bundespräsidenten

Austria · National Council · 19 September 2012

Antrag der Abgeordneten Herbert Scheibner, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesverfassungsgesetz, mit dem das Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz geändert wird <i>(Neuformulierung der Angelobungsformel des</i> <i>Bundespräsidenten vor der Bundesversammlung)</i>

Bill· Selbständiger Antrag2060/Aselbständiger antrag

Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz, Verfassungsgerichtshofgesetz-VfGG, Änderung

Austria · National Council · 19 September 2012

Antrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Harald Stefan, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesverfassungsgesetz und ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz - B-VG, BGBl. Nr. 1/1930, und das Verfassungsgerichtshofgesetz 1953 - VfGG, BGBl. Nr. 85/1953, geändert werden <i>(Prüfung von Staatsverträgen durch den</i> <i>Verfassungsgerichtshof)</i>

Bill· HRH.R. 6390 (112th)open

Constitution and Citizenship Day Act of 2012

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 2012

Constitution and Citizenship Day Act of 2012 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a Constitution Day Grant Program awarding competitive grants to local educational agencies and charter schools to commemorate, and enhance educational programs that teach students about, the U.S. Constitution and their state constitution. Requires such program to occur annually on Constitution Day, September 17, or the following Monday if that day falls on a weekend, and give students the ability to register to vote.

Bill· Initiatiefwetgeving2012Z15638concluded

Voorstel van rijkswet van het lid Taverne houdende verklaring dat er grond bestaat een voorstel in overweging te nemen tot verandering in de Grondwet, strekkende tot aanpassing van de procedure voor vaststelling van rechtstreekse werking van een ieder verbindende bepalingen van verdragen en van besluiten van volkenrechtelijke organisaties

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 6 September 2012

Voorstel van rijkswet van het lid Taverne houdende verklaring dat er grond bestaat een voorstel in overweging te nemen tot verandering in de Grondwet, strekkende tot aanpassing van de procedure voor vaststelling van rechtstreekse werking van een ieder verbindende bepalingen van verdragen en van besluiten van volkenrechtelijke organisaties

Bill· Wetgeving2012Z15036concluded

Verklaring dat er grond bestaat een voorstel in overweging te nemen tot verandering in de Grondwet van bepalingen inzake de inrichting en samenstelling van de Staten-Generaal, strekkende tot de vermindering van het aantal leden van de Tweede Kamer en de Eerste Kamer

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 13 August 2012

Verklaring dat er grond bestaat een voorstel in overweging te nemen tot verandering in de Grondwet van bepalingen inzake de inrichting en samenstelling van de Staten-Generaal, strekkende tot de vermindering van het aantal leden van de Tweede Kamer en de Eerste Kamer

Bill· SS. 3493 (112th)referred

Free Press Act of 2012

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 2012

Free Press Act of 2012 - Amends the federal judicial code to authorize a representative of the news media to file a special motion to dismiss any claim asserted against such representative in a civil action if the claim arises from an oral or written statement or other expression that is on a matter of public concern or that relates to a public official or figure (thereby establishing a judicial procedure to seek dismissal of what are commonly referred to as &quot;Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation&quot; [SLAPPs]). Places the burden on the party asserting the claim, after such a motion is properly brought, to prove the claim is legally sufficient and supported by facts sufficient to sustain a favorable judgment. Requires the dismissal with prejudice of any such claim challenged with a motion to dismiss for which the party asserting the claim fails to meet that burden. Prohibits such a special motion to dismiss from being filed against a claim: (1) brought by the federal government or a state attorney general, or (2) arising out of a statement offering or promoting the sale of the goods or services of the person making the statement. Authorizes a person whose personally identifying information is sought in connection with a claim that arises in whole or in part from an oral or written statement or other expression that is on a matter of public concern or that relates to a public official or figure, or a person from whom such information is sought in connection with such a claim, to file a special motion to quash the request or order to produce the information. Places a similar burden of proof on the party making the request for such information, after a special motion to quash is properly brought, to show that the claim is legally sufficient and supported by appropriate evidence. Permits a civil action in a state court that raises a claim arising out of speech on public issues to be removed to federal court by a party who seeks to file a special motion to dismiss asserting a colorable defense based on the Constitution or laws of the United States. Allows the removal of a state court proceeding to federal court by a party who seeks to file a special motion to quash, but only with respect to the proceeding to quash the request for personally identifying information and not the remainder of the civil action.

Bill· SS. 3482 (112th)referred

Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2012

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 2012

Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2012 - Reduces the estimated committee allocation of the appropriate levels of budget totals for FY2013 for the Senate Committee on Appropriations to: (1) $985 billion in total new budget authority, and (2) $1.118 trillion in total budget outlays. Expresses the sense of Congress that it should enact comprehensive tax reform that lowers marginal rates, broadens the base, and simplifies the tax code to increase economic growth while generating revenues that are in line with the historical average of 18% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to establish the discretionary spending limits for FY2013-FY2022 for defense and nondefense categories. Authorizes the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget to adjust such discretionary spending limits, budgetary aggregates in the most recently adopted concurrent budget resolution, and CBA committee allocations if a bill or joint resolution is reported making appropriations for FY2013-FY2014 that provides funding for overseas deployments and activities undertaken as a result of a declaration of war or congressional authorization of force. Limits such adjustments. Makes it out of order in both chambers to consider any legislation that includes any provision that would cause total on-budget mandatory spending to exceed specified discretionary spending limits. Exempts from such limits the mandatory components of: (1) Social Security, function 650; (2) Medicare, function 570; (3) Veterans Benefits and Services, function 700; and (4) Net Interest, function 900. Makes it out of order in both chambers to consider legislation that includes any provision that would cause total mandatory spending for Social Security to exceed specified limits for total outlays for FY2013-FY2022. Makes such requirement inapplicable if the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) determines that projected outlays are expected to exceed such limits due to changes in cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) contained in present law. Makes it out of order in both chambers to consider legislation that includes any provision that would cause total mandatory spending for Medicare or for Veterans Benefits and Service to exceed specified limits for total outlays for FY2013-FY2022. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to make publicly available in the Federal Register an annual report containing expected budget authority and outlays. Requires OMB, if such report shows any category exceeding specified spending caps, to prepare, and the President to issue and include in that report, a sequestration order that reduces budgetary resources by an amount sufficient to bring spending in line with that category's statutory cap. Prescribes requirements for calculating and implementing such sequestration. Authorizes Congress to override a sequestration order through the passage of a law that either waves or supersedes the spending limitations for that category of federal spending for that fiscal year. Subjects any motion in the Senate to move to consideration of a bill to waive, modify, or in any way alter a sequestration order (except for defense spending while the nation is engaged in a justified conflict) to a point of order that can only be waived through an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members. Makes conforming amendments to: (1) the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, (2) the CBA, (3) the Budget Control Act of 2011, and (3) other specified federal laws. Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from exercising additional borrowing authority until the date that the Archivist of the United States transmits to the states for their ratification S.J. Res. 10 as introduced on March 31, 2011, a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, or a similar amendment provided it requires that total outlays not exceed total receipts, that contains a spending limitation as a percentage of GDP, and requires that tax increases be approved by a super-majority vote in both chambers. Increases the public debt from $14.294 trillion to $17.4 trillion on the date such legislation is transmitted to the states.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 541 (112th)referred

A resolution condemning the Government of Vietnam for human rights violations.

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 2012

Reaffirms the commitment of the United States to democracy, human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law. Condemns the ongoing human rights violations committed by the government of Vietnam against the Vietnamese people. Urges the President, the Secretary of State, and all other appropriate U.S. government officials to ensure that U.S.-Vietnam relations include robust discussion on Vietnam's troubling human rights record. Encourages the Secretary to place Vietnam on the list of Countries of Particular Concern with regard to religious freedom. Urges the President, the Secretary, and other world leaders to support the human rights of the people of Vietnam and to call on the President of Vietnam to: (1) release all political and religious prisoners; and (2) protect freedom of expression, assembly, association, or religion.

Bill· HRH.R. 6334 (112th)referred

To provide that the individual mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act shall not be construed as a tax.

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 2012

Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to provide that provisions of such Act imposing a penalty for failure to purchase minimum essential health care coverage shall not be construed as imposing any tax or as an exercise of any power of Congress under the Constitution to impose a tax. Makes the effective date of the amendment made by this Act retroactive to the enactment date of PPACA.

Bill· HRH.R. 6290 (112th)referred

To prohibit the deployment of a unit or individual of the United States Armed Forces or element of the intelligence community in support of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization military operation absent express prior statutory authorization from Congress for such deployment.

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 2012

States that it is the policy of the United States: (1) to protect the role of Congress as a coequal branch of government and ensure protection of its constitutional authority to declare war and support the Armed Forces; (2) to prevent the need for U.S. and international military intervention abroad through the utilization of diplomacy to resolve issues of concern to the United States and the international community; and (3) that no federal funds may be used to carry out any North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military operation or to deploy a unit of individual of the U.S. Armed Forces or an element of the intelligence community (IC) in support of a NATO military operation unless the President determines that such operation is warranted and seeks express prior authorization by Congress, as required under the Constitution. Provides an exception in the case of a military operation to directly thwart or repel an offensive military action launched against the United States or an ally with whom the United States has a mutual defense assistance agreement. Prohibits any unit or individual of the U.S. Armed Forces or IC element from being deployed in support of a NATO military operation absent express prior statutory authorization from Congress, unless under the exception described above.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 767 (112th)referred

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives relating to increased transparency in the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 2012

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) Members of Congress should be allowed to observe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement negotiations on behalf of the American people; (2) Members of Congress, the public, and the press should be allowed access to the draft text of the agreement and to the text of U.S. negotiating proposals; (3) any final TPP agreement should not undermine U.S. sovereignty by submitting the United States, its people, or its businesses to the jurisdiction of foreign tribunals; (4) any final TPP agreement should not increase U.S. unemployment or the U.S. trade deficit; and (5) any final TPP agreement that is not a treaty approved by two-thirds of the Senate under Article II, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution does not have the force of law.

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