Word: amendment
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...Amend Mil. Comm. R. Evid...
...Amend RMC 804 to add RMC 804(c)(1)(2): "(1) The accused does not have a right to be absent from any military commission proceedings; however, the military judge may permit the voluntary absence of the accused following an inquiry, on the record, sufficient to establish: (a) that the accused's request for absence is personal, knowing, and voluntary, and (b) that the prosecution will not be disadvantaged by the accused's absence...
...acrimonious exchanges between Maliki and the Kurds are rooted in the economic and territorial ambitions of both parties, and they threaten to widen the broadening Arab-Kurd schism. Maliki's recent call to amend the constitution to beef up the central government's powers at the expense of Iraq's 18 provinces did not spare the semiautonomous three-province Kurdish region in the north. It has not only stoked tensions with the independence-minded Kurds but has also drawn fire from his Shi'ite coalition allies in the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, who want to set up a similar semiautonomous...
...judiciary committee voted to send a measure to the floor of the unicameral legislature on Tuesday that would amend the governor's bill to extend the law to children as old as 30 days. (Some legislators wanted the limit to be a year or more.) Chairman Brad Ashford said he expected vigorous debate and further amendments. A 24-hour cooling-off period will then go into effect before a final vote comes on Friday...
...questions about what to do for General Motors, which appears headed for bankruptcy without government help. Paulson said TARP was never intended to bail out nonfinancial firms, so that money is off-limits. But he did indicate that the Bush Administration would be agreeable if Congress wanted to amend a law passed in September that provides $25 billion in loans to automakers for retooling, so that those funds can be used to keep GM and the two other members of the Detroit Three alive...