Word: repealed
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...House plans to vote in May on legislation to repeal the ban, and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has promised to send Clinton a bill by summer...
...deal may not go through, and with its demise the three-decade-old edifice of affirmative action may begin to crumble. Over Frank Washington's protests of unfair treatment, the House voted to repeal the FCC tax provision, and the Senate Finance Committee is poised this week to limit it. But that's just the start. The Republicans do not debate whether affirmative action will be dismantled, only how quickly. And many Democrats accept the inevitable. President Clinton is reviewing all 160 affirmative-action programs, and he is expected to conclude that at least some of them must...
...York state, the law still reads that martial rape is not a crime," Fairstein said. "Legislators have declared the law unconstitutional, but have not voted to repeal...
President Clinton today issued an executive order forbidding the federal government to sign big contracts with firms that hire permanent replacements for striking workers. Republicans already are preparing legislation to repeal the president's executive order, which applies only to government contracts exceeding $100,000 and will not be retroactive. "This is a political move on the part of the president to ingratiate himself with the labor unions," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl, who pointed out that Clinton previously alienated the unions by backingNAFTAandbailing out the Mexican economy...
When he was 18 and at Yale, the Connecticut drinking age was still 18. The states had received the power to set their own laws with respect to intoxicating liquors from the 22nd Amendment, which was enacted in 1933 in order to repeal the 18th [prohibition] Amendment of 1919. Eighteen made for a sensible age then, and was even more coherent with government policy when the 26th amendment, which guarantees 18-year-olds the right to vote, passed...