Tulsi Gabbard, supporter of House Resolution 1227, resigned to endorse which politician in 2016?
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House Resolution 1227 House Resolution 1227, "Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017", is a U.S. United States House resolution introduced during the 115th Congress. It would remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act Schedule I, and eliminate Federal restricitons on cannabis possession and sale, other than interstate transfers. It was initially sponsored by Thomas Garrett Jr., a Virginia Republican, and cosponsored by Scott Taylor, also a Virginia Republican, and Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat. It is reintroduced legislation from 2015, when it was known as S. 2237. Other Representatives who joined as cosponsors included Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican. On April 20, 2017, activists from D.C. Cannabis Campaign distributed 1,227 joints made from 1 lb of cannabis to members of congress to urge consideration of the bill.
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Tulsi Gabbard Tulsi Gabbard ( , born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has been the United States Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2013. She was also a vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee until February 28, 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Elected in 2012, she is the first American Samoan and the first Hindu member of the United States Congress. She served in a combat zone in Iraq. Gabbard (then known as Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo) served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004, becoming at age 21 the youngest woman to be elected to a state legislature at the time.
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Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, 2016 A Legislative Assembly election was held on 16 May 2016 for the 232 seats (except Thanjavur and Aravakurichi) of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. AIADMK under J. Jayalalithaa won the elections and became the first ruling party to be re-elected in Tamil Nadu since 1984, though with a reduced majority. DMK won half of the seats it contested but its allies performed poorly; notably, the Indian National Congress won 16% of the seats they contested and the alliance lost due to its poor performance. The votes were counted on 19 May 2016. In the previous election in 2011, AIADMK, under the leadership of Jayalalithaa, won a simple majority and formed the government, while DMDK chief Vijayakanth served as the Leader of Opposition until January 2016.
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Stone Sizani Phumelele Stone Sizani (born 2 March 1954) is a South African politician who was, until his resignation on 2 March 2016, a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa and the African National Congress Chief Whip. It has been reported that upon leaving Parliament his next post will be South African Ambassador to Germany.
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Ellen Trane Nørby Ellen Trane Nørby (born 1 February 1980) is a Danish politician (Venstre "liberal centre" party). Since 28 November 2016 she has been her country's Minister of Health.
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Aida Hadzialic Aida Hadžialić (] ; born 21 January 1987) is a Bosnian-born Swedish politician and a member of the Social Democrats. She served as Minister for Upper Secondary School, Adult Education and Training from 3 October 2014 until her resignation on 15 August 2016.
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Anil Madhav Dave Anil Madhav Dave (6 July 1956 – 18 May 2017) was an Indian environmentalist and politician. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he served as the Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the Narendra Modi ministry from July 2016 till the time of his death in May 2017.
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Labour Party (Ireland) leadership election, 2016 The 2016 Labour Party leadership election was a leadership election within Ireland's Labour Party that was triggered when Joan Burton announced her intention to relinquish the role of leader. Burton took the decision to step down as Labour leader on 10 May 2016, and in the aftermath of the party's poor showing at the 2016 general election.
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Melissa Parke Melissa Parke (born 11 August 1966) is a former Australian politician. Parke was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Fremantle, Western Australia, from the 2007 federal election until her retirement in May 2016. Parke was the Minister for International Development in the second Rudd ministry, from July 2013.
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Heidi Alexander Heidi Alexander (born 17 April 1975) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East since the 2010 general election. She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health on 13 September 2015. She resigned from the shadow cabinet on 26 June 2016.
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Maviya Ali Maviya Ali (Hindi: माविया अली ) is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly in India. He represents the Deoband constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Indian National Congress political party.
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Ngaree Ah Kit Ngaree Jane Ah Kit (born 4 June 1981) is an Australian politician, who was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly at the 2016 Territory election, representing the electoral division of Karama for the Australian Labor Party.
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Andrew Wallace Andrew Bruce Wallace (born 27 February 1968) is an Australian politician. He is the member for Fisher in the Australian House of Representatives. He is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and succeeded the previous member, Mal Brough, at the 2016 federal election.
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Harbans Kapoor Harbans Kapoor (born 7 January 1946) is an Indian politician who is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttarakhand State. He is a former Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. He was Speaker from 2007 to 2012. He was elected to the assembly from Dehra Khas constituerncy. He has never lost Legislative Assembly elections and won for a record seven terms in a row (four times as the member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and thrice as the member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly) from Dehradun.
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Croatian parliamentary election, 2016 Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 11 September 2016, with all 151 seats in the Croatian Parliament up for election. The elections were preceded by a successful motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković and his cabinet on 16 June 2016, with 125 MPs voting in favour of the proposal. A subsequent attempt by the Patriotic Coalition to form a new parliamentary majority, with Minister of Finance Zdravko Marić as Prime Minister, failed and the Parliament voted to dissolve itself on 20 June 2016. The dissolution took effect on 15 July 2016, which made it possible for President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović to officially call for elections on 11 September 2016. These were the ninth parliamentary elections since the 1990 multi-party elections.
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Cash-for-votes scandal The cash-for-votes scandal was an Indian political scandal allegedly masterminded by then Opposition Party Bharatiya Janata Party politician Sudheendra Kulkarni in which the United Progressive Alliance, the majority-holding parliamentary-party alliance of India led by Sonia Gandhi, allegedly bribed Bhartiya Janta Party MPs in order to survive a confidence vote on 22 July 2008. The vote in the Lok Sabha arose after the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front withdrew support from the government, who wanted to pursue an Indo-US nuclear deal.
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Sudhanshu Trivedi Sudhanshu Trivedi is an Indian politician who is one of the official national spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Having done PhD in Mechanical Engineering he served as a faculty in Mechanical Engineering department in couple of Indian Universities. He also worked as Information Advisor to the UP Chief Minister and also Political Advisor to BJP National President Rajnath Singh (current Home Minister of India).
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Josephine Teo Josephine Teo Li Min née Yong Li Min (; born 8 July 1968) is a Singaporean politician. A member of the country's governing People's Action Party (PAP), she is currently a Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Transport. She has been a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Bishan-Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency since 2006.
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Suresh Patel Suresh Dhanjibhai Patel is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Patel is a first term member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly in 2014 from the Maninagar constituency in Eastern side of city Ahmedabad. He was chosen as replacement of Narendra Modi who resigned from the seat to become Prime Minister of India.
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Dilip Sananda Dilip Sananda is an Indian politician who is a leader of the Indian National Congress and a former member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Buldhana. He was arrested by the police in February 2016 on corruption charges. In March he was released from jail on bail.
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2016 JNU protests On 9 February 2016, students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) held a protest on their campus against the capital punishment meted out to the 2001 Indian Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, and Kashmiri separatist Maqbool Bhat. The organizers of the event were former members of the Democratic Students Union (DSU). The event was held despite the University administration withdrawing permission for the event shortly before it was due to begin, due to protests by members of the Hindu nationalist student union ABVP. The event saw clashes between various student groups. A small group of individuals, whom a later investigation described as outsiders to the University wearing masks, shouted "anti-India" slogans. The slogans were criticized by many individuals, including political leaders and students of JNU.
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Nina Turner Nina Turner (born December 7, 1967) is an American politician from the State of Ohio. Turner, a Democrat, served as a member of the Ohio State Senate from 2008 to 2014, and was elected to be the chamber’s Minority Whip in the 129th General Assembly. A supporter of the progressive movement, Turner has been characterized as a rising star in the Democratic Party. She endorsed Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and became an active surrogate for him.