it fluctuates from administration to administration. Presidents don't seem to have all that control over it. Legislation doesn't seem to have that much control over it. Is there any risk in saying, "Hey, he's made your gasprices go up" when the next Democratic president or the next Democratic Congress may not be able to stop that?
So that's a long way of saying that the Holy Grail here has to be durable, comprehensive climate legislation at the federal level, to mobilize the country at the level we need to meet that ramp up.So how do we get there?
And to them, we can look at the authorizing legislation of NASA, which actually, if you look at what that authorizing legislation asks us to do, the first priority is the expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and phenomena in the atmosphere.So clearly it's in our charter.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. legislation . Specify no flame retardants if you can in purchasing.
Just a little over 10 years ago, 2001, the US had a large surplus. Legislation like anti-trust legislation .
real despair of the the depression was already a thing of the past. legislation created in Congress, maybe with consultation with the White House, maybe not. But but that tells you that
And yet, the United States Senate, just about a week before that huge Greenland ice flow separated from the mainland, announced that it would not be debating comprehensive climate legislation , that it would not be even debating a measly 15% renewable energy standard, whichwould require utilities to get that percentage of their power from alternative means. And I, many of you saw in the paper today, in the New York Times, a great story about renewable
redeem the purpose and prompts of constitute rule of law constraints through legislation and judicial review are important and necessary but not sufficient the nation must rely on thepresident's ability to make sound decisions based on a commitment to
in the back corner somewhere and uh lo and behold one Senator ended up putting a a hold on it and blocking the legislation and it sparked a whole Firestorm on the blogosphere which ended up creating uh folks from the right andthe left we had folks from redstate.com and folks from Daily Coast lining up together to out who this one Senator was
the contentious votes over cap and trade or renewable energy no further uh legislation is needed to act on this part of the equation um if the federalgovernment is obeying the law and is considering approving a new power plant should it be coal or should it be
very uh visible and and uh subst stantial way without any further legislation needed and because the because there will be manyvoices um suggesting that now is not the time to do that um it will be interesting to see how that plays out
demonstrate fantastic leadership skills. They didn't demonstrate the ability to work across the aisle. They didn't demonstrate the ability to come up with really unique and groundbreaking and interesting legislation . They were fundraisers. And so I feel like when you look at the leadership now and you say, well, why aren't they pushing harder against the executive branch, for example? Most of them, and I say most of them because it's hundreds of people, right? There's a whole bunch of different... But most of them aren't those kind of people. They weren't picked for
corporate aligned. Uh you yourself has been one of the biggest receivers of pharma money. But 85% of Americans support legislation that will end dark money. Is the CBC on the wrong side of this? No. You know and as well as I do that no white person in this country
I want to build a world where people can be seen as trans people and be seen fully as the gender identity that they are. Any legislation that disproportionately does not protect the trans community is legislation we can't support.
And so we said OK, we got some folks together, we got some people who were experts, and we came up with a proposal for a simple piece of legislation that mimicked what had long been on the floor of the United States Congress and had died there, a proposal to institute a system of universal background checks for gun purchases.
And we can do it. congressional legislation compared to public opinion, and most importantly, if you look at statistical data of outcomes of congressional campaigns
of legislation after the Social Security Act ever passed to help workers.
necessary legislation could be passed and implemented.
Later, when we talked earlier, I found out that she obviously likes challenges that are practically impossible, because she also spends time, as you'll hear today, working on legislation to protect people from the environment, and you'll hear a lot about that today. And I think I her definition was, in many ways it's even more challenging, because it's a fight against the chemical industry, and billions of dollars, and trying to find
became Arnold Schwarzenegger's Chief environmental adviser and the architect of of California is global warming uh legislation and uh energy plan uh he ran into actually it's kind of funny he ran into one of his old uh um customers in the pool business Dustin Hoffman who said glad to see you cleaning the big
- According to our legislation , in principle, I'm the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, so I had to give corresponding orders.
the hope for AI legislation at least on a robust level on a national level where we haven't seen even willingness to to
other changes that this legislation this this court case proposes, they may be harder for social media firms to
and can track the legislation in the House and the Senate so that people can make up their own minds about what
And there's legislation currently now on President Joe Biden's desk around making it a federal holiday.
I do think that legislation is potentially coming down the line, and I think there are big questions around what does that legislation look like.
It is defined in legislation .
But because somebody passed legislation that requires this to be in every new home, you have to spend-- 5% is not an insignificant amount
But they created statewide legislation that makes this much more simple.
So the French legislation issued a decree, no African is allowed to pick up a camera from 1945 to 1960
and the type of legislation they endorse.
I think the legislation that these guys, you know the 5 and 1/2 year olds will get into 20 and 30 years down the road will be very different
But if you the legislation says, if you have one for boys, you should have one for girls.
So governments will change legislation and say, we'll regulate, and this will bring the corporations
We must-- looking at legislation , which is a tool you guys have, is a tool that the governments-- the US, everybody has.
You can say legislation and technology definitely does not always move at the same speed.
I think anti-trust legislation is another one.
It's a legislation again.
There was some legislation coming down from the government there which was going to curtail the way that Airbnb did its work.
No voice in our legislation , so we're not going to be part of your official headcount.
to get federal climate legislation passed in the US.
They don't have legislation like the ADA in a lot of other countries.
We have the best legislation in relation to sexual orientation in the world.
We have legislation and other things.
"Just remember what this legislation is for-- jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs." And most catchily, there is something
So there's some legislation that's now in place in San Francisco, around that and a number of other places in the country that
declined the legislation that mandated that you not fin any longer required that you bring sharks into port with the
dismantle policy and legislation that prevents people from maximizing access to the resources that give them
When is that legislation going to pass?
Then you wonder why legislation is so shoddy.