To better address these hazards, Congress and the Administration have been at work for much of the year on an amendment, crucial to Americans' health, to the Clean Air Act.
The First Amendment was ignored for much of American history, coming to life only in the 1920s thanks to the courage of judges like Learned Hand, Louis Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A1 Action Sought on Gay Marriage In state after state, fierce battles have broken out this week in the legislative aisles, as conservative lawmakers push for much more than the federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that President Bush endorsed this week.
In state after state, fierce battles have broken out this week in the legislative aisles, as conservative lawmakers push for much more than the federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that President Bush has endorsed.
He moved an amendment on Tuesday paving the way for much greater restrictions on the powers that the bill would give ministers.
The Hyde amendment makes abortion care unaffordable for most of them and unattainable for much too many.
Now, thanks to the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments and additional regulation in California, reformulated gasoline will be the standard for much of the country by 1996.
The second amendment has become a badge and bumper sticker, a shield for gun activists and scripture for much of the American right.
But the Yale law professor Reva Siegel has argued that, for much of the twentieth century, legal scholars, judges, and politicians, both conservative and liberal, commonly understood the Second Amendment as protecting the right of citizens to form militias — as narrow a right as the protection provided by the Third Amendment against the government's forcing you to quarter troops in your house.
Then came the much awaited amendments.
