This is appropriate and seems to have worked quite well, especially in the matter of the airport plan, which many on the bay assume will never happen, if only because it would require a gridlocked Congress to amend current law.
The report has two main recommendations: Congress should create a Gulf Coast Recovery Council — made up of federal, state and local officials — to coordinate the long-term effort to repair the damage to the environment and to public health; and Congress should amend current law to ensure that a "significant amount" of the penalties owed by BP and others are invested in these projects.
Richard Bennett, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal, has urged the state to respond in line with the court verdict, "to enact new laws or amend current legislation to accord equality and end all discrimination against members of sexual minorities".
Obama and the White House have voiced support for amending current law so unaccompanied minors can be more quickly deported.
Congress would need to amend current legislation to enable the VA to compete for, and treat, non-veterans.
"It's important to note that the commission cannot create or amend current gun laws — that is the Congress's job".
According to the FER's statement, the solution to this undervaluation is to amend current accounting rules to require an approach to cost estimation that fully recognizes the cost of risk in the government's credit programs.
SB 667, sponsored by a group of Republicans, would amend current tax exemption practices to levy large additional fees on the parents of college students who register to vote anywhere in the state that isn't listed as their home address.
The bill would amend current law that protects elephants from being deprived of food, water, or rest and being subjected to certain abuses, and expand those protections to include a prohibition on the use of the bullhook and other painful devices.
Contemporary measures of fatal and non-fatal outcomes of RHD are also crucially needed to change or amend current practice and plan outcome-based research in RHD.
