Word: repeals
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Backed by other Republicans, Hatch authored a proposal to repeal the PATRIOT Act’s 2005 sunset, or expiration date, making the legislation permanent...
Nevertheless, the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill to remove the synagogue panel a few years after its installation, only to repeal it soon later on constitutional grounds. With the reversal pending, an anonymous visitor splashed the image with ink, leaving Sargent the first to restore his own murals...
...interest handouts and national security legislation is back on. Last year, a measure that would have protected Eli Lilly & Co. from lawsuits involving a mercury-based preservative in many childhood vaccines was quietly attached to legislation establishing the Department of Homeland Security-but a furious outcry led to its repeal two months later. Now it's been coupled to a bill that would-finally-set up a compensation program for health care workers who suffer serious side effects from smallpox vaccines. The absence of such a program is a big reason why fewer than 13,000 of the Bush administration...
...destroy it, or change it? And, aptly for today, there is the question of when is it right to fight?" McKellen, a veteran gay-rights activist, has his own wars still to wage. He's furious that Prime Minister Tony Blair has not delivered on his promise to repeal Section 28 of the 1988 Local Government Act, which prohibits state schools from teaching that homosexuality is not offensive, in his first Parliament. "As a public figure I have a responsibility to be open, to bring comfort to people in societies where it is actually dangerous to be publicly...
Bush has also issued avowals that he will veto appropriations bills when the Senate has threatened to repeal existing restrictions on abortions. As recently as last Friday, he warned Congress that if a catchall spending bill under consideration omits even one existing curtailment of federal funds for abortion, his advisers would recommend a veto. "It's a mistake to underrate his focus," says Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, an abortion-rights advocate who has found herself on the losing side of the abortion wars. "They are persistent, and they are insistent...