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Volume 59, Number 2 Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2022-06-10 lzigerelli
Policy Essay Pulling Back the Curtain on PBMs: A Path Towards Affordable Prescription Drugs Representative Earl L. “Buddy” Carter 257 Articles The Untapped Potential of the Congressional Review Act…
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Subnational Diplomacy: The Key to Strengthening U.S. International Relations Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2022-05-30 sbreggia
Representative Ted Lieu* I. INTRODUCTION When SARS-CoV-2 (“COVID-19” or the “coronavirus”) began spreading in the United States in early 2020, it quickly became apparent that we were facing a globa…
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A Conservative Approach to Early Childhood Education: Building on the Foundations of Success & Boosting Academic Achievement Through Choice Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2022-04-07 sbreggia
Representative Burgess Owens* I. INTRODUCTION As the son of an educator and a grandfather to sixteen school-aged children, I believe that Early Childhood Education (“ECE”) is essential for many rea…
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Volume 59, Issue 1 Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2022-03-02 lzigerelli
Policy Essay Law Labor Reform at a Critical Juncture: The Case for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act Representative Andy Levin & Colton Puckett 1 Articles Strengthening the Federal Appro…
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Legal Constraints on Executive Power to Manage Agency Vacancies Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2021-12-04 sbreggia
Lauren Shapiro* I. INTRODUCTION Throughout the history of the Republic, high-level government offices have often gone unfilled for periods of time. Such vacancies occur for a variety of reasons—per…
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Reconceptualizing Congressional Decision-making Around Well-being: A Health in All Policies Approach Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2021-06-10 lzigerelli
Congressman TJ Cox, Dr. Kathy Murphy, & Rebecca Kahn I. INTRODUCTION Protecting and promoting the public’s health is one of the most important roles of government. The preamble of the United St…
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Fixing the United States Postal Service: How Congress Must Act to Bring Financial Stability to the Agency and Comprehensive Mail Service to the American People Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2020-10-29 pgoffner
Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. and Gordon E. Holzberg I. INTRODUCTION The United States Postal Service (“USPS”) — first established as the United States Post Office with the Post Office Act of …
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A Chapter 11 Makeover: Timely Revisions to the Bankruptcy Code to Assist Small Businesses Through Crises Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2020-06-28 pgoffner
Rarely does Congress act proactively. But with the passage of the Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA)[1] in 2019, the legislature may have—unknowingly at the time—saved many small businesses f…
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Investigating the Attendant Circumstances of RICO from Its Early History and Drafting to Transnational Organized Crime and Extraterritorial Applications: A Perspective on U.S. Prosecutions, Ideology, and Globalization Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2020-05-20 pgoffner
By: Alina Veneziano* Abstract This Article traces the history of extraterritorial regulation, as applied to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”), through an examination o…
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Chairpointment: Rethinking the Appointment of Independent Agency Chairpersons Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2020-02-25 pgoffner
Chairpointment: Rethinking the Appointment of Independent Agency Chairpersons Samuel Rubinstein* The modern independent agency chairperson possesses great executive and administrative power. Among…
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The Standard Business Deduction Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2019-08-31 jbakst
The Standard Business Deduction Kathleen DeLaney Thomas* In 2017, Congress passed the most sweeping tax reform bill[1]the country has seen in over 30 years.[2]The new legislation responded to many …
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WARNing: The “Liquidating Fiduciary” Exception Should Not Exist Harvard Journal on Legislation Pub Date : 2018-11-06
WARNing: The “Liquidating Fiduciary” Exception Should Not Exist Jonathan C. Gordon* Abstract The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires employers of a sufficient size to …