Interpreting Legislative Inaction

One way to be born? Legislative inaction and the posthumous child.

From Power to Inaction.

Research has shown that people who feel powerful are more likely to act than those who feel powerless, whereas people who feel ambivalent are less likely to act than those whose reactions are univalent (entirely positive or entirely negative). But what happens when powerful people also are ambivalent? On the basis of the self-validation theory of judgment, we hypothesized that power and ambival...

Antibiotic resistance: consequences of inaction.

Bacterial resistance presents therapeutic dilemmas to clinicians worldwide. The warnings were there long ago, but too few people heeded them. Thus an emerging problem has grown to a crisis. Resistance is an ecological phenomenon stemming from the response of bacteria to the widespread use of antibiotics and their presence in the environment. While determining the consequences of inaction on the...

Vitamin D Deficiency: Time for Inaction?

In 1998, the British Medical Journal boldly stated in an editorial headline, "Vitamin D Deficiency: Time for Action."(1) The urgency was clear: vitamin D deficiency was going undiagnosed and untreated in large numbers of people. Patients were at risk and suffering needlessly. A simple, extremely low-cost, low-toxicity intervention was readily available. All that was required was vitamin D advoc...

Legislative Update.

length: 105 days. If necessary, the Governor can call for a 30-day special session. Legislators can call themselves into special session with a two-thirds vote. Next Cutoff: April 3, Last day to read in committee reports from opposite house exept House fiscal committees and Senate Ways & Means and Transportation committees. Information: • For up-to-date legislative information, visit: www.leg.w...