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They tried to legislate recovery--passing a rule requiring each couple to go out at least twice a month.
At a Senate hearing, Republican senators worried that a ban on human-cloning research might prevent lifesaving medical breakthroughs, and researchers and ethicists said there is no need to legislate hastily, since it will take a while to refine the sheep-cloning technique to work in humans.
Anti-abortion Congressman Tony Hall (D-Ohio) points to the deep cuts in international family planning and the angry battle going on around him and reflects, "In our effort to legislate around here, sometimes we become purists, and we hurt the people we are trying to help."
The GAO as an institution, and the Comptroller General as an officer of the legislative branch, assist the Congress in exercising its responsibilities under the Constitution to oversee, investigate, and legislate.
Buchanan and Clift agree--for once--in their prediction that Congress will legislate some form of protection for agents from a compulsion to testify.