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...UK: 200th anniversary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution US: North Dakota Republican party presidential caucus Tuesday China: National People’s Congress annual session for the country’s top legislature...
...Schoolteachers in Vermont have filed personal injury claims because of PCB exposure....
...Peter Welch Democrat, Vermont Peter Welch has represented Vermont as the state’s at-large representative in the US House for 15 years....
...Four states — California, Vermont, Montana, and Kentucky — have specific abortion measures on their ballots. The FT will begin live coverage of election results at 5pm EST....
...Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, plans to call a special session of the state legislature to strengthen further Illinois’ abortion rights laws....
...In some states, such as Kentucky, there are proposals that would allow lawmakers to ban abortion, while in California and Vermont voters will be asked to bolster legal protections for reproductive rights...
...Erik Bleich, of Middlebury College in Vermont, says people need to be able to hold two simple ideas in their heads: free speech is critical....
...It’s draconian,” reads a statement from Unilever subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s, the Vermont-based ice cream brand....
...They cited as evidence the fact that Patrick Leahy, the Democratic senator from Vermont and president pro tempore of the Senate, was presiding over the trial rather than John Roberts, the chief justice of...
...But he never practised law, instead joining the New York state legislature before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1980....
...Some policies, such as a pledge to invest $1.7tn in green energy, drew heavily from a “unity task force” created with Mr Sanders this year, which included several figures from the Vermont senator’s side....
...On Monday, Tony Evers, Wisconsin’s governor, had ordered the vote to be postponed until June 9, after the state’s Republican-controlled legislature rejected his calls to delay the election in a special session...
...Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, and Elizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts, also campaigned in the state in recent weeks....
...She thought it more likely that conservative state legislatures would chip away at the decision by passing new laws that restricted abortion access....
...Governors in Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Montana, Rhode Island and Vermont have signed executive orders to enforce net neutrality standards....
...But with hedge funds warning about the hit to their business model, state legislatures and governors are wary of acting unilaterally....
...Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and former presidential candidate, idenfitied trade as one area on which he expected to be able to work with Mr Trump....
...In the meantime, the New York legislature may consider several bills regulating the industry until its session wraps up in June....
...Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming all increased their gas taxes last year....
...All but one of the 50 US states, Vermont, must balance their annual budgets....
...All states apart from Vermont have to balance budgets annually and they have been forced to deal with collective deficits of $388bn since 2008, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures....
...All states apart from Vermont have to balance budgets annually and they have been forced to deal with collective deficits of $388.1bn since 2008, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures...
...All but one of the 50 states, Vermont, must balance the budget annually....
...The gaps range from $9m in Vermont to $1.5bn in California....
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