But the Tories took exception to the fact that an amendment to the report moved by a committee member, Tom Watson, made reference to the fact that the NoW had paid out £800,000 in damages for persistently bullying a sports reporter, Matt Driscoll, during Coulson's editorship.
In fact, a 1976 amendment to the Consumer Product Safety Act that the National Rifle Association advocated for specifically forbids the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) from regulating the sale and manufacture of guns, despite the fact that they are one of the most lethal consumer products, killing more than 30,000 people a year and injuring 72,000 others.
In fact, they rejected an amendment that would have prevented such inspections.
Earlier this year, in fact, the House of Representatives approved an amendment, still making its way through Congress, to limit the use of the machines to secondary screening and to require that passengers be offered a pat-down search in lieu of such screening.
"The fact that I introduced an amendment to remove part of the Gang of Eight bill doesn't mean I support the rest of the Gang of Eight bill," Cruz said.
(In fact, the last time such an amendment came to a vote in Congress was 1983).
This, despite the fact that the measure contained an amendment — modelled on a proposal by Lee — that would have allowed insurers to offer cheap, catastrophic care policies outside the Obamacare insurance exchanges, so long as they also offered a comprehensive option through the exchanges.
In fact, just this week, Kaptur and Jones announced an amendment to the pending Financial Choice Act in the House of Representives, that would represent the first genuine attempt to bring to a vote the possibility of resurrecting the Glass-Steagall Act since its repeal.
"In fact, the amendment reinforces the existing federal ban of a national firearms registry...
A close reading of the bill suggests that in fact, the amendment would prevent the DOJ or Drug Enforcement Administration only from using the new cash to sue states such as California over the medical marijuana laws, in an attempt to repeal them.
