Word: consent
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However, two-thirds of Congress must consent before a new nation can join NATO, so gaining membership will not be an easy process, he said. "NATO is not just a club that you go and pick-up a locker room...
...treasure chest of biological diversity, this area is also home to several indigenous groups, including the Huaorani, the Secoya, the Shuar and the Quichua. Under Ecuadorian law, these groups have no rights to subsurface minerals on their land, so the oil was sold by the government without their consent. When the oil company tried to enter the area, its trucks were blocked by irate local villagers. Only with the help of the military was Texaco able to begin drilling...
...nurse and a farmer--she took over operating a 320-acre farm after her first husband died in an accident--Leising lobbied for term limits from her seat in the Indiana Senate. She also introduced informed-consent legislation requiring Indiana women to wait 18 hours and receive counseling before an abortion. The Susan B. Anthony pro-life women's pac has endorsed Leising in her second effort to unseat 32-year incumbent Hamilton...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There are three reasons I got involved with the informed-consent [abortion] bill. I'm a nurse. I'm a mother. And I'm a Catholic...
Istook's stringent concern for the federal pocketbook is well known: a recent study rated him in the top 5% in Congress on fighting wasteful government spending. He's also conservative socially, and proposed a measure that would have required parental consent for minors to get contraceptives or treatment of sexually transmitted diseases...