Word: repeals
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Weld said his legislation would repeal several now-unenforceable laws that could jeopardize abortion rights if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Roe v. Wade decision...
...Repeal a law, already struck down by state courts, that prohibits the use of Medicaid money to pay for abortions...
...long submerged, they burst into the open last year just before the annual awards dinner of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington. Instead of easy talk between old friends, an angry argument erupted. Contending that immigration laws discriminate against Latino workers, Hispanics asked the group to support repeal of the legislation. At first blacks refused, charging that Latino immigrants take jobs away from poor blacks. Furious, Hispanics threatened to storm out in protest. Only eleventh- hour diplomacy by Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, coaxed the Latinos back...
Others have also been rushing to reopen the door of the global community to South Africa ever since last spring, when President F.W. de Klerk asked parliament to repeal the last major apartheid laws; lawmakers did so before the end of June. The 12-nation E.C. voted in April to remove its ban on imports of certain products, though Denmark has been holding up implementation, and London will try to talk Commonwealth countries into doing the same at their annual conference in October. The International Olympic Committee last week decided to let South African athletes compete in future games, ending...
Four resolutions have been introduced in Congress seeking to repeal or change the luxury tax, and the Bush Administration said last weekend that it wouldn't object to getting rid of the levy. But Washington insiders say the odds of killing the tax are still very low, since it was part of a delicately balanced package. If the tax is eliminated, it could unravel a budget compromise that took months to hammer out. Says a staff member on the House Ways and Means Committee: "Once you allow the process to start, you just don't know where it is going...