Word: amendment
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...implement the expanded database, Congress would have to amend the Family Education and Privacy Rights Act, which bars schools that receive federal funds from releasing private records without the permission of students or their parents, said Harris. Once that provision is modified, officials from governmental agencies outside the Department of Education would face fewer hurdles in accessing student records, Harris said...
Same-sex marriage wasn’t the only gay rights cause up for debate in this election. Sure, voters in eleven states were presented with ballot initiatives that would amend state constitutions to define marriage as between one man and one woman, and all eleven adopted the amendments by large percentages. But the literature promoting the initiatives makes it clear that marriage is not really the issue at stake. The debate focused on whether homosexuality was acceptable, in wedlock or out of it. That paints the new amendments as an even more major defeat, and calls...
...other business, Council Treasurer Clay T. Capp ’06, along with Mahan and Secretary Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, introduced a bill to amend the council constitution and cement changes passed by a termbill fee hike referendum last spring...
...council voted to amend the bill to include the smaller number, and the amended legislation passed...
What makes state propositions especially troubling is that when enacted, they become binding constitutional amendments or inflexible law statutes, reducing budgeting flexibility. While the Founding Fathers had the smarts to know that frequent meddling with the U.S. Constitution by means of amendments would encourage tinkering based on impulse rather than reason, California has made such frequent and destabilizing alterations easy. Moreover, these initiatives create a false binary on issues that are often multifaceted. Facts become the first casualties, and complexities in the issues also disappear. Unlike the California Legislature, which can debate and amend bills, the public is forced...