Word: amender
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "It opens the door to every racist element in the nation to discriminate and to do it with a subsidy from the Government." For civil rights leaders, the decision was the culmination of an ominous series of Administration actions. Reagan has urged Congress to amend some of the key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which helped enfranchise millions of blacks and elect thousands of black officials. The Justice Department has said that it would like to find a way to overturn a Supreme Court decision allowing companies to set up voluntary affirmative action...
...shaped primarily by Congress, as it was in the late 1970s. In a significant political coup, Reagan last year overrode legislative machinery that Congress had designed specifically to give itself permanent control of the budget process. For the moment at least, dazed lawmakers will have to accept, reject or amend presidential proposals rather than enact their own. The President's triumph was the latest skirmish in a seesaw struggle over spending that has gone on since the founding days of the Republic, even though Article I of the Constitution theoretically gives Congress primary power over the federal purse...
Graham said she made her decision after the state legislature refused to amend a redistricting petition and include Framingham in the district where U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) and U.S. Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.) will square off next fall...
...bill to amend or lessen the effects of 21/2 has gotten an override vote after the Governor's veto, Graham added...
...rent board acts this week, the city council could reconsider its policy statement in favor of granting the removal permits at next week's meeting; if the rent board members don't act, or if they deny the application for permits, then the chances that the council will actually amend the ordinance to include exempting for the two buildings will improve dramatically. And once that momentum is established, it might carry over into other votes on other housing issues...