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Ironically, without serious amendment, the current education bill could reverse this progress.

There is also scope for appalling conflicts of interest: but for a last-minute amendment, the current bill would have allowed firms to write sentencing reports that recommended sending convicts on courses they themselves offered.

Two crushing presidential defeats, and the unrelenting hostility of Latino voters, has only slightly changed the party's thinking on immigration reform as can be seen from its pile on of amendment after amendment to the current bill with the centerpiece being border security as the non-negotiable condition for the bill's passage.

The rules for amendment within the current bylaws will provide for a vote on the proposed amendment and require a certain percentage of votes in favor of the amendment for it to take effect.

President Robert Mugabe plans to reintroduce the land provision in 30 days as an amendment to the current Constitution.

The study provides an amendment to the current sub-division of the regolith by introducing the term "hydraulith", made up of percolation and infiltration zones, for the supergene alteration zone in granitic terrains.

No wonder the Fine Gael minister for Europe, Lucinda Creighton, said on Thursday that what was required from Friday's critical EU summit was an amendment to the current Lisbon treaty rather than a brand new constitutional arrangement.

No 10's decision follows a failure by the Treasury to dissuade Tory MPs from backing an amendment to the current finance bill, tabled by the former children's minister Tim Loughton, which would change the law next spring.

On Sept. 14, I wrote that Franklin Roosevelt's Court-packing plan in the 1930's was "less manipulative and more openly pursued, as a proposed constitutional amendment" than the current right-wing effort to purge three justices from the California Supreme Court.

"I do not believe we're going to be able to pass this amendment in the current Senate," said Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

But the fact that Mr Reid and Mrs Pelosi have decided to separate ethanol and fuel economy from a more sweeping initiative suggests that they think climate change is still too tricky to tackle.Mr Reid's disapproval is likely to doom one amendment to the current Senate bill that would set up a registry to measure American firms' greenhouse-gas emissions.