Otherwise, with control over a simple majority of Parliament, a ruling party, if it chose to, could direct amendments to the PEA or create new legislation to provide some citizens with, say, double the number of votes and protect this from constitutional challenge using a notwithstanding clause (that is, a provision stated to have legal effect despite the existence of other inconsistent laws).
Cow manure production represents only 0.13% of the organic wastes; this can be explained by its direct soil amendment by farmers in their citrus orchards, since most of them have dairy production.
Prior to the direct election amendment's adoption in 1913, senators were elected by state legislatures.
New Mexico, unlike California, does not allow direct constitutional amendments or initiatives.
Without much warning or debate, the Senate passed an amendment directing the Federal Reserve to reduce the hidden "swipe fees" that banks collect from retailers each time a customer makes a purchase with a debit card.
The next government, whatever its makeup, will reduce this: members of the euro zone are supposed to limit public-sector deficits to 3% of GDP, and a new constitutional amendment directs the federal government to cut its structural deficit (ie, adjusted for the business cycle) to 0.35% of GDP by 2016.
Such was the case late Wednesday, when Representative John Lewis of Georgia pushed back with a fiery speech directed at an amendment offered by Representative Paul C. Broun of Georgia that would have barred the Justice Department from using money to enforce a part of the Voting Rights Act.
The amendment directs the secretaries of both the Energy and Agriculture departments and the head of the EPA to create policies for forest biomass energy, and to recognize its "carbon neutrality" so long as the forests involved continue to be managed to grow trees.
This amendment directed RHS-epidemiologists to deliver more comparable data for municipalities and, also to deliver more usable knowledge for specific municipalities.
