Amendments offered by Senators Grassley, Sessions and Cornyn threaten survivors, in particular, because they unnecessarily increase the likelihood of victims' deportation in domestic violence cases, expand grounds of deportability, make victims more vulnerable to detention, and limit mechanisms to consider each individual case.
"The only way to resolve this is ground operations — which is why Israel would be forced to expand ground operations if the latest round of diplomacy doesn't work".
The new defence secretary, Robert Gates, has belatedly announced plans to expand ground forces by an extra 62,000 troops nearly a tenth of the total to bring the army up to 547,000 and the marines to 202,000 by 2012.
Just two days earlier, his father, the novelist David Grossman, together with his colleagues Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua, had convened a press conference to protest against the Israeli cabinet's decision to expand ground operations, and called for an immediate ceasefire and the start of negotiations.
Even if American troops were withdrawn from Iraq tomorrow, billions of dollars would still be needed to replenish military equipment, swap aging weapons systems for new ones and rebuild and expand ground forces strained to the breaking point by this misguided war.
But in one of a flurry of contradictory moves, Israel's defence minister also warned that the army was preparing to expand ground operations in the coastal enclave, where the offensive has already claimed almost 900 Palestinian lives, three-quarters of them civilians.
With broad spatial coverage, satellite data can potentially expand ground monitoring networks into rural and suburban areas.
Reversible logic is expanding grounds with its applicability to various upcoming technologies and quantum computation.
The state House last week passed a version that expanded grounds for shunning patients to "principles," which the Senate approved on Monday.
He called for expanding ground forces, adding 65,000 soldiers to the Army and 27,000 to the Marines.
So far, a backup effort at expanded ground testing is "making good progress," said Sally Koris, a TRW spokeswoman.
