Not only is she prolific, having been the chief sponsor of 56 bills and amendments in the last Congress, but she also has a keen talent for generating publicity -- like the time she gave a speech on the floor of the House, covered from head to toe in a blue burqa, to protest the treatment of women in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
Lawmakers introduced at least 130 separate bills and amendments in the last session of Congress to try to weaken the law ― the vast majority from Republicans, according to a list compiled by Defenders of Wildlife.
Ms. Snowe's proposal was among 564 amendments filed in the last couple of days by members of the Senate Finance Committee, which plans to take up the legislation this week as the struggle over health care enters a critical new phase.
Well, that was never ever contemplated in all the litigation over the first amendment in the last five decades.
Our First Amendment libel decisions in the last two decades have in large measure been an effort to explore the full ramifications of the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan principles.
Unfortunately, the amendments that appear in the last official draft (from the Council) are largely cosmetic.
The new film, "Lincoln," seeks to address this question by focusing on the political struggles for the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the last few months before Lincoln's death.
The convention concluded successfully, approving a final draft which would ultimately, aside from a small amendment arranged at the last minute in London, become the Constitution of Australia.
Mr Cameron argues the four year report, brought in by his colleague Jamie Greene in the last amendment debated earlier this afternoon, could be one of the most important additions to the legislation.
