Word: amendment
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...promise that disturbs Israelis -about 70% of whom are nonobservant -is Begin's agreement to amend the "law of return," which makes Jews from any country eligible for Israeli citizenship. Conversions to Judaism will be considered legal only if they are done according to Halakha, meaning strict Orthodox tenets. The proposed change has already infuriated Conservative and Reform rabbis in the U.S.; marriages and divorces authorized by them would also be scrutinized more closely...
...perceives it," said D.C. Delegate Walter Fauntroy. Oltmans himself cited an obviously disturbing aspect of his charges. Asked a tough question during a television interview, he replied, "Well, I'm quoting Mr. De Mohrenschildt, so that makes it very easy"-De Mohrenschildt being in no position to amend the record...
Passage of the bill is not certain. Senate conservatives will be sorely tempted to amend it, and the House Judiciary Committee has long been a graveyard for complicated legislation. But the Carter Administration has tentatively endorsed the compromise, and chances for passage before congressional adjournment in 1978 appear bright...
Public Outrage. More seriously, at least half a dozen bills were introduced into the House last week either to override the ban on saccharin or, more generally, to amend the Delaney amendment so that the FDA can apply some sort of "reasonableness test" to the results of experiments like those on the saccharin-stuffed rats. There is little sentiment to repeal the Delaney amendment outright or to write detailed standards for the FDA to follow. Congressmen, says one Senate aide, dread being put in the position "of voting how much cancer is to be allowed in food." But public outrage...
...rules require a two-thirds vote of the meeting to amend a standing rule, and Hartnett claims that during the elections, this requirement was not met in the passage of three motions which he feels may have "seriously, and perhaps negatively" affected his chances of election...