{"id":35922,"date":"2022-05-20T09:54:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T09:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=35922"},"modified":"2022-05-22T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T09:57:36","slug":"liberia-senate-concurs-with-house-for-amendment-of-alien-and-nationality-law-but-calls-for-conference-committee-to-harmonize-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/liberia-senate-concurs-with-house-for-amendment-of-alien-and-nationality-law-but-calls-for-conference-committee-to-harmonize-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senate Concurs with House for Amendment of Alien and Nationality Law But Calls for Conference Committee to Harmonize Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Henry Karmo<\/p>\n<p><strong>MONROVIA \u2013<\/strong> The Liberian Senate on Thursday voted in the majority in favor of the passage of the amended Alien and Nationality Law. The Senate vote Thursday was a concurrence vote as the House of Representatives had earlier passed the bill.<\/p>\n<p>However, there will be the need for a conference committee as the two Houses passed two separate versions of the Bill. In keeping with the need for a conference committee, the Senate Pro-Temp Albert Chie named a six-man Senate Committee to meet with the House of Representatives Committee to harmonize the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Varney Sherman of Grand Cape-Mount County will chair the Senate\u2019s committee. Sen. Sherman is the Senate\u2019s Committee Chair on Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate secured 18 votes for the passage while two Senators including Willington Geevon Smith of River-Cess County, and Simeon Taylor of Grand Cape Mount County abstained from the process.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/news\/liberia-senate-concurs-with-house-for-amendment-of-alien-and-nationality-law-but-calls-for-conference-committee-to-harmonize-differences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/news\/liberia-senate-concurs-with-house-for-amendment-of-alien-and-nationality-law-but-calls-for-conference-committee-to-harmonize-differences\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Henry Karmo MONROVIA \u2013 The Liberian Senate on Thursday voted in the majority in favor of the passage of the amended Alien and Nationality Law. The Senate vote Thursday was a concurrence vote as the House of Representatives had earlier passed the bill. However, there will be the need for a conference committee as [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-liberia-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-683","item-theme-double-nationalite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35923,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35922\/revisions\/35923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}