#law

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#beneficiaries #cancer #care #cure #ensure

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#act #different #different kind #greater #internet

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#citizen #congress #consideration #determine #every

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#determine #enforcement #human #human powers #individual

Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#care #care costs #choice #costs #discourages

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. ↗

— John Yoo

#convention #criminal #criminal law #federal #law

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#i #law #need #now #right

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. ↗

— Brigham Young

#i #instead #law #live #make

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. ↗

— Edward Young

#awe #destroy #fame #gives #glorious