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Hong Kong will hold its first legislative election under the improved electoral system on Sunday. China Daily talked to an array of representatives from Hong Kong's various sectors to weigh in on the upcoming election and Hong Kong's democracy. Zhao Jiayin, member of the All-China Youth Federation and vice-chairman of the Hua Jing Society, said the new electoral system made people pay more attention to candidates' abilities and contributions, which is a far cry from the previous extr...

A number of laws safeguarding economic security, maintaining social stability and promoting people's livelihoods are expected to be made by China's top legislature next year, according to a senior legislator.

You get for a generation. >> yeah, you know, we have an actual hand maiden on the court. so it makes me very nervous about a womans right to choose in this country. i want to shift gears now. we have so much to talk to you about on abortion rights, do we -- is there another role to play? it seems like roe is on life support. does the legislative have a role to play here? how do we choose a womans rights if they fail? >> we are already skipping over into a post-roe world. we understand the writin...

Editor's Notes: Hong Kong will hold its first Legislative Council election under the improved electoral system on Sunday. China Daily talked to an array of representatives from Hong Kong's various sectors to weigh in on the upcoming election and Hong Kong's democracy. Henry Tang Ying-yen, chairman of the board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, said the principle of "patriots administering Hong Kong" allows widespread participation and will bring diversity int...

But more importantly, after the first of the year, legislative will be competing all across the country. but particularly in the south. and they will be consider a redistricting plan. this will be the first time since 1960 that we will not have a federal standard to ensure that racial gerrymandering needing, and political gerrymandering is not the primary use of use to draw political lines. we must ensure that voters can elect candidates of their choice. and that we can have a truly representati...

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That its made by the former member of congress. basically saying, congress has no legislative, no proper purpose in investigating an attack on congress. or in trying to determine what steps should be taken to protect the congress going forward. or to protect our democracy. i cant imagine, frankly a worse argument when it comes to congresss power of oversight and power to legislate. but, there you are, meadows has to tie himself in knots because he came in, hes provided lots of documents, some of...

Again. and, you know, this claim, this fraud, its just law enforcement, legislative, continues to be the hobby horse. this is the main thing that mark meadows said when he sued the congress yesterday. so it really does decimate it and tries to put to rest an argument thats being made not just here but generally wherever team trump is trying to push back against any investigations of any sort by the congress. >> now, theres a stay on this pending the possible appeal to the supreme court. obviousl...

Got donald trump mad because he told the world that donald trump tested positive for covid six days before he told everyone and went around 500 people, including the family members of fallen service members, you know, possibly exposing them to covid, and that didnt look great. so donald trump was mad at him. he then sued, and in the lawsuit, basically makes this claim that this is not properly a legislative exercise. he says, congress has no free standing power to issue subpoenas. instead invest...

Rescue plan that president biden signed a law in march was the first legislative -- very leon and now we are seeing the effects of it across the country. that money goes to help also to folks in all kinds of places. it would have been truly astonishing about the whole thing is that every single republican voted against the legislation. lots of them have been trying to take credit for all the good things than it, something president biden enjoyed pointing out back in may. >> even my republican fr...