We now need to see whether this goes far enough to correct the legislation and improve our freedoms.
The court found against Flood, who appealed, and in 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the 1922 and 1953 decisions exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, but it called on Congress to correct through legislation any inequities.
"It is our hope that wisdom will prevail and the Congress will take the necessary steps to correct this legislation in order to avoid the serious unintended consequences that may ensue," it said.
On Capitol Hill an effort is moving to correct by legislation what the intelligence committees regard as a longtime fatal flaw: the agency's reluctance to bring the FBI in early on serious security leaks.
And even if the logic of that budget board analysis was correct, this year's legislation, signed this month by Gov. Rick Perry, doesn't ban all abortions in the state.
On the mechanics of what the Fed is allowed to do, Mr. Dodd and Mr. Frank are of course correct that their legislation changed the powers of the Federal Reserve.
It was back in 1964 that President Lyndon Baines Johnson predicted Democrats would lose the south after his visionary and correct civil rights legislation became law.
The problem was considered a major issue and attempts were made to correct abuses, with legislation (including the electoral reforms of 1855, 1875 and 1881) repeatedly being enacted to combat fraud.
Even though A123 Systems' research was underwritten by hundreds of millions in Congressionally-appropriated funds, no requirement currently exists for Congress to even be notified that an overseas transfer of the technology is underway -- a situation that House members, led by Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn, aim to correct by introducing legislation.
The legislation corrects outdated laws, said Ms. Griffin's mother, Laurie Griffin, who advocated the bill's passage.
