Policy Chats
MARCH 11, 2024
About Sabrina Cervantes : Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes was elected in November 2016 and represents California’s 58th Assembly District. She currently serves as Chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, leading a record-breaking 35 legislative members, which also includes a historic number of 21 Latinas.
Policy Chats
MARCH 11, 2024
About Sabrina Cervantes : Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes was elected in November 2016 and represents California’s 58th Assembly District. She currently serves as Chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, leading a record-breaking 35 legislative members, which also includes a historic number of 21 Latinas.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
While it is a pathbreaking initiative, at the same time, it's static in that it is a funding source extremely difficult to modify for supporting "new" programs, because it requires the State Legislature to change the enabling legislation. But the time to change that is not when an organization is about to fail, but long before.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
7] Because Congress had set up the GSEs through legislation, the Obama administration believed it was up to Congress to develop revisions to that legislation to eliminate these defects. Q3: Why was Congress unable to expeditiously pass legislation to correct those business model defects as a key step to ending conservatorship?
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 4, 2024
The GSEs were authorized by congressional legislation to perform a very specific set of activities, primarily focused on providing loans to consumers or businesses for a designated purpose, and mostly related to real estate and housing. the legislation establishing them). A few of the recommendations require legislation by Congress. [4]
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Its replacement with a long and rambling piece of ad hoc legislation that veers from the draconian to the incomprehensible and back again is more reminiscent of North Korea or Belarus than it is of a western democracy. The Guardian , 5 May 2020. Murray 2020.
NLRG (National Legal Research Group)
OCTOBER 8, 2020
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. The provision also sets a two-year statute of limitations except for 2017 injuries that are filed in 2020.
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