Overwhelming majorities of Americans – Americans who believe in the 2nd Amendment – have come together around commonsense reform – like background checks that will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun.
He asked if he was aware that the amendment had come up for a vote twice in the Georgia House, if he had talked with his colleagues about the measure in the month and a half that passed between those two votes, and if he knew his home-state paper had published an editorial on the risks of the amendment one month before Boggs voted for it.
Dozens of amendments have come up for a vote, most of… Three years ago, it seemed as if the American withdrawal from Iraq might resemble the chaotic scenes that accompanied the fall of Saigon.
Dozens of amendments have come up for a vote, most of them relevant and substantive, some not so much — Jim DeMint of South Carolina's border-security amendment, filed expressly to sink another amendment, by Oregon's Ron Wyden, that would have ended the noxious senatorial privilege of placing secret holds to block nominations.
Addressing the National Rifle Association in April, the President declared, "the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to an end," and added, "You have a true friend and champion in the White House".
Because the legislation currently being discussed does not include the amendment, Stupak has come out strongly against the compromise bill and in recent interviews has indicated that he is willing to bring down the entire package as a result.
It doesn't matter at all, from the point of view of the eighth amendment, why a particular drug has come to be adopted by a state for its execution regimen.
How sad that that the 1st Amendment's "Freedom of the 'Press" has come to this.
The Treasury select committee has come up with sensible amendments to the government's draft plans, which should be supported.
