Inactive workers, inactive Congress
SOME bits of Brazilian legislation move forward smartly: on June 4th the Senate approved a measure that will allow President Fernando Henrique Cardoso to run for a second consecutive term next year. Other bits do not. A government bill to reform the pension system has been stuck in the Senate, motionless, for the past year.
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