Imagine the tension, meanwhile, if Roy Walker had calmly picked up a lead pipe and left his podium to rain down blows on Linda, 38, when she failed to guess the popular phrase or saying being enacted by Mr Chips.
This is the lowest uninsured rate for children ever recorded and represents a 47percentt decline since CHIP was enacted in 1997.
They enact laws that chip away at when and how women can obtain abortions.
"The financial industry tried to water down Dodd-Frank before it was enacted, has been trying to chip away at it since it became law, and is continuing that effort with this lawsuit," Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, said in a statement.
Of the 1.4 million to 1.5 million children without health insurance, the number may drop sharply in the next year when Texas finally starts enrolling children in the children's health insurance program, known as CHIP, which was enacted by Congress in 1997.
Almost immediately after it was enacted, lawmakers began trying to chip away at the Amendment, defining it so narrowly as to make it almost toothless.
Since announcing he'd re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba on Dec. 17, 2014, Obama has enacted a slew of changes to chip away at the embargo as much as possible without Congress lifting the sanctions.
But it has enacted few bold reforms and even chipped away at earlier ones.
Congress enacted legislation last month allowing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to reallocate unspent CHIP money between the states ― but Virginia wound up on the losing end of the deal and has less funding than it expected, Nablo said.
This year, the government enacted a law allowing citizens to form nonprofit organizations, a move that chips away at the Communist Party's monopoly on political life.
