Word: repeals
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...found that African Americans are far more sympathetic than whites to the plight of Haitian refugees, but also far more worried than whites about competition from immigrants for jobs. In Florida's Dade County, where 60% of the residents are now Spanish-speaking, the county commission voted unanimously to repeal a 1980 ordinance making English the sole language for official business. But their opponents are protesting that the repeal violates an English-only amendment to the Florida constitution approved in 1988 by a statewide vote of more than...
...only the American Association of Retired Persons has summoned any enthusiasm. That is a bit of a role reversal, since the 32 million-member AARP did much to kill a law enacted under the Reagan Administration that would have insured people against catastrophic illness. AARP helped persuade Congress to repeal the law on the ground that it imposed on oldsters too high a cost in extra premiums. This time around, AARP is pleased that the Administration intends to insure the aged against the often ruinous costs of long-term care and spread the extra costs among the population at large...
...three-year-old ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons. Relentless lobbying and fistfuls of NRA campaign money appeared to have done the job. Never mind that polls showed 80% of New Jersey residents in favor of the ban -- both houses of the state legislature voted last summer to repeal most of , it. When Democratic Governor Jim Florio vetoed their action, the assembly voted in February to override. The senate was expected to follow suit last week. Gun lobbyists smelled victory...
...November the gun lobby will try to make good on its promises to punish legislators who have opposed it. After the New Jersey vote, senate president Donald DiFrancesco, a Republican who initially supported repeal of the assault-weapon ban, set up a campaign fund to assist legislative candidates that the NRA had targeted for defeat. To make sure the organization got the message, he made the first contribution himself -- $10,000 that the NRA had contributed to his own campaign fund over the past two years...
...goal of the movement is a complete repeal of the ban," said Bennecke, currently a member of the Campaign for Military Service. "But that's not enough I think the real battleground will be restrictions on gays in the military...