France should modify a law that calls for a positive portrayal of its colonial past in history textbooks, President Jacques Chirac said.
A few days ago, Representative Charles B. Rangel threatened to disrupt the convention if Washington Republicans did not modify a law requiring some public housing tenants to work in community service.
The competing bills reveal the mounting tensions at play in the Council, which is gearing up for what could be a contentious and costly political battle to modify a law that was twice approved by voters, in 1993 and 1996.
The European Union still is deciding whether to modify a law on transport fuels to penalize oil sands crude, which emits more greenhouse gases than conventional crude, partly because it requires more processing.
Florida recently modified a similar law, under which some companies are earning regulated profits on nuclear plants they have not even begun to build.
Vice President Mike Pence signed, defended, and then modified an Indiana law that allowed organizations to refuse service to LGBTQ people under the guise of "religious freedom" after subsequent backlash.
Named for Congressman Bono who who'd sponsored similar legislation in the past, and pejoratively dubbed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, the new rules modified an existing law, hitting the brakes on copyright terms for already protected works.
Under pressure from LGBTQ groups and businesses, he modified a religious freedom law he passed as governor of Indiana to preclude businesses from denying service to LGBTQ residents based on the business owners' religious beliefs.
The question isn't about modifying a cruel law to make it less cruel when the pregnancy was hoped for; it's about abolishing laws this punitive to all women.
The measure would modify a 1999 law that the Supreme Court struck down in April on the ground that it was too broadly written and violated free-speech protections.
