Suu Kyi was barred from the presidency by a constitutional provision drafted specifically against her: no one with a foreign relative can be president.
But the bill includes a narrower provision, drafted by the Senate, authorizing the government to detain, without trial, suspected members of Al Qaeda or its allies — or those who "substantially supported" them — bolstering the authorization it enacted a decade ago against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks.
They are doing this by way of an amendment to the health reform bill that will replace a very good provision drafted by Henry Waxman to one backed by PhRMA, BIO and several companies lobbying on this issue.
Lobbyists for banks including Citigroup had previously tried to rewrite the provision, drafting as many as 70 of the 85 lines in one 2012 update.
She wants a change to the provision in the constitution that prevents any citizen who has a foreign spouse or children (or whose children have foreign spouses) from standing for the presidency – a provision plainly drafted to exclude her – although, she says, "I have to confess that I feel a bit embarrassed talking about it because it seems a little bit too personal".
To find that way, however, they'd have to get around three stumbling blocks in Allergan's charter documents, including two bylaw provisions drafted the previous year by Latham and Richards, Layton & Finger.
Is the Dream Act a provision within the drafted bill?
WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who is playing a crucial role in bipartisan negotiations over financial regulation, pressed to remove a provision from draft legislation that would have empowered federal authorities to crack down on payday lenders, people involved in the talks said.
A provision of the law drafted by Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, requires coverage of "additional preventive care and screenings" for women.
After a water park in Florida was mocked for seeking stimulus money while the bill was being drafted, a provision was added barring states and local governments from using their money to build swimming pools.
