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Covered California provides affordable healthcare access, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2013, more than 17% of Californians did not have health insurance. Discover how government agencies across the country use AWS to better serve constituents at the AWS Cloud for State and Local Governments hub. This was particularly true in California, where more than 39 million people live. It also provides increased resiliency.

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I can't help but laugh. DC Mayor's third term as a platform for transformation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And I "argued" with her about various legislative initiatives that at the end of the day, had no impact, because they provided no additional remedies to give citizens the power to respond to and potentially stop things they didn't like, by providing a process for review and participation.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

One candidate definition is that the power of a legislative leader or party is an ability to achieve outcomes that would otherwise have been unattainable or to prevent outcomes that otherwise would have taken place (Bachrach and Baratz 1963). Women in the state legislative power structure: committee chairs. Mooney, Christopher (2013).

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. In this case, that means that primary market lenders, a very important constituency in the U.S. 22] See the G-fee Report, pp.

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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

This legislation included a substantial "crack" in the over 70-year-old, court-imposed Feres doctrine, which barred tort claims by military members against the United States for injuries incurred incident to service. However, Congress could also act again in a future NDAA, with enough pressure from constituents. 3d 871, 878 (9th Cir.