The president was said to have come to that decision after a dispute in Parliament on Tuesday over a possible amendment to the country's marriage law.
The biggest obstacle to passing a clean bill is a possible amendment by Senators Fred Thompson, Republican of Tennessee, and Robert G. Torricelli, Democrat of New Jersey.
Mr. Bohrman said he would have instead had the moderators ask each candidate about their stance on a possible amendment to the Constitution banning flag-burning.
The German move was in part triggered by ongoing debate over a possible amendment to the European Union's fuel quality directive that would restrict the use of "high-polluting" oil within Europe.
It's a $26 billion anchor, everyone is guilty, and it's not enough to raise revenue but reforms have to be on the table too, by "opening the constitution". However, he did not offer a set of revenue sources for the immediate problem of making contributions prior to any possible amendment in 2020.
The point is he didn't sign it to push back a possible amendment.
So why is it so difficult for Hillary Clinton to simply say this: "Yes, after the fact, years later, some Democrats used DOMA to forestall a constitutional amendment when it came up -- saying that we don't need an amendment because we have DOMA -- but no, a possible amendment was not something that was a rationale for signing DOMA in 1996.
The Commission requested the Committee to consider these proposals as a possible amendment to the Code, but adopted the Draft Revised International Code of Practice at Step 8. 17 ALINORM 97/13A, Appendix II; ALINORM 97/25, Part 14 (comments from Hungary and UK); CAC/LIM 31 (Corrigendum in Spanish only - prepared by the Delegation of Spain).
"They're all written," Coons spokesman Ian Koski said of the possible amendments.
All those recommendations were ignored, although the government insisted that it is open to further discussions and possible amendments when the law reaches parliament, which is expected to approve the changes.
